CAELEB DRESSEL

Seventeen-year-old David Popovici of Romania has become the youngest swimmer to break the world record in the men’s 100-meter freestyle.

Two-time world champion Caeleb Dressel is not defending his title in the men’s 100 freestyle at the swimming world championships after withdrawing before the semifinals.

Torri Huske, Caeleb Dressel and Alex Walsh have all won golds for the United States on the second day of racing at the world swimming championships.

Here’s a breakdown of what certain countries pay athletes when they win a medal in the Summer Olympics, according to Forbes.

NPR's team in Tokyo put together our favorite moments of the Games, where participants showed their athleticism, sportsmanship, and what motivated them to compete.

The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics have officially come to an end.

The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games finally come to a close after an exhausting, enlightening and sometimes enraging run.

He breaks records and hearts. The swimmer won five gold medals in Tokyo, making him the third American male swimmer to win three individual golds in a single summer games. Caeleb Dressel

U.S. swimmer Caeleb Dressel discusses his future swimming plans, and what he'd change about the Olympics.

More than 7,000 miles from Tokyo and hidden in a ballroom at a posh resort, Team USA family and friends are getting an Olympic experience they never would have half a world away.

Well, that was as fast as Caeleb Dressel swimming the 50-meter freestyle.

Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon earned milestone medals at the Olympic pool before Italian runner Marcell Jacobs was the surprising winner of the race to determine the fastest man in the world.

Emma McKeon won two more gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, making the Australian the first woman to earn seven medals in swimming at a single games.

It's been an astonishingly successful Games for the 24-year-old from Florida. He added two gold medals to his haul from the Tokyo Olympics, departing the Games with five golds.

Caeleb Dressel capped one of the greatest performances in Olympic history with his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games.

American star Caeleb Dressel still has a shot at five gold medals.

Katie Ledecky made more history for the U.S. in the pool.

For all the focus on Caeleb Dressel, Australia’s Emma McKeon could leave the Tokyo Olympics with more swimming medals than anyone.

Team USA swimming has been going for gold at this year's Olympic games, with some even making history.

The willingness of athletes, led by Simone Biles, to talk about the pressures they face as elite athletes on the Olympics stage, has forced a look at how NBC presents the Games to the public.

The 24-year-old led for the entire two-lap sprint and clocked it in 49.45 seconds. After winning, he celebrated with his closest competitor, Kristof Milak from Hungary.

Caeleb Dressel has won his third gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics with a world record in the 100-meter butterfly.

Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica has broken Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old Olympic record in the women’s 100 meters.

The final night of swimming gives Caeleb Dressel and four-time Olympic medalist Simone Manuel more chances to collect hardware on Day 8 of the Tokyo Games.

After an Olympics with plenty of free time, Simone Manuel has finally gotten back to racing.

The Olympic debut of the 4x-100-meter mixed medley relay lived up to its promise of utter chaos and unpredictability.

Caeleb Dressel has a shot to win six gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics.

He did it in the in 100 meter Butterfly semi-final. Dressel wasn't the only swimmer to break Olympic records this year, South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker was neck and neck with United States swimmer Lilly King

Tatjana Schoenmaker knocked off the first individual world record in swimming at the Tokyo Olympics.

Caeleb Dressel is expected to be the star of Day 7 at the Tokyo Games as he seeks his third gold medal in Friday night coverage of the Olympics.

Caeleb Dressel tossed his gold medal from a winning relay at the Tokyo Olympics to a teammate in the stands.

Caeleb Dressel got his first individual gold medal, the Chinese women put together a record-setting relay and American Sunisa Lee won the women’s all-around gymnastics gold.

The Team USA star took the top spot in the 100-meter freestyle, and his emotions spilled out in an interview afterwards.

The 24-year-old sprinter set an Olympic record in the blazing fast two-lap race, claiming his first-ever individual gold medal. It was a strong day in the pool for the U.S.

Caeleb Dressel lived up to the hype in an Olympics where many of the U.S. favorites have faltered.

The U.S. women’s volleyball team won its third straight match at the Olympics and is assured of a spot in the quarterfinals.

For the first time in more than a century, Britain claimed relay gold at the Olympic pool.

Day 5 of the Tokyo Games features another busy day at the Aquatics Centre with five swimming finals and the men’s diving synchronized springboard final.

Simone Biles and Team USA seek their third consecutive gold medal in women's gymnastics in Tuesday's team final.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel helped the U.S. defend its title.

Dressel, who's been hailed as the successor to Michael Phelps, got started on his quest for six gold medals in swimming.

Ariarne Titmus and Luka Doncic made memorable Olympic debuts.

Caeleb Dressel got started on his quest for six gold medals in swimming, while Katie Ledecky found herself in a very unusual position: Second place.

Two of America's biggest stars begin their Tokyo Games on Sunday.

Chase Kalisz knows what’s coming: Pain, and lots of it in the 400-meter individual medley that gets swimming underway at the Tokyo Olympics.

A debate is brewing between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over U.S. medal threat Michael Andrew’s decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus on the eve of competition at the Tokyo Olympics.

Caeleb Dressel could win as many as seven medals in the pool at the Tokyo Olympics.

There won’t be any reaction shots of excited, shocked or crying family members in the stands at the Tokyo Olympics.

We lost a lot last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of those things was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Simone Manuel is going back to the Olympics.

The stars shined on the next-to-last night of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha.

After a long week of waiting, Caeleb Dressel finally punched his ticket for the Tokyo Olympics with a victory in the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. swimming trials.

Katie Ledecky’s most grueling night at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials resulted in two more victories.

The Lilly King Show is headed to Tokyo.

Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has failed to advance from the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle in his first event of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

Outside of it, the Olympic champion is pushing herself in a new endeavor to boost the profile of women’s sports. AdShe’s aiming to defend her 100 free title at the Tokyo Olympics, delayed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic. When Stanford closed its facilities last March, Manuel and training partner Katie Ledecky found a backyard pool to work out in. He failed to make it out of the preliminaries, finishing 32nd in the 100 free and 25th in the 100 breaststroke. Blake Pieroni won the men’s 100 free in 49.19 seconds.

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Like everyone else, Katie Ledecky was forced to shelve her plans when the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Ledecky is still working toward making a big splash at this summer’s delayed Tokyo Games. Ledecky is among several big names diving back in with three months to go until the U.S. Olympic trials. Caeleb Dressel, Simone Manuel, double backstroke world-record holder Regan Smith, and Ryan Lochte will swim over four days in the first single-site American meet since the pandemic began. In the early days of the pandemic, Ledecky scrambled to find a pool to train in after Stanford shut down its facilities.

Irvine is hosting about 240 swimmers — a mix of national team members, collegians and high schoolers — competing outdoors under strict safety guidelines at a time when COVID-19 is surging again in many parts of the country. Ryan Lochte, seeking to make his fifth Olympic team at age 36, is competing at the U.S. Open site in Sarasota, Florida. Swimmers enter the complex through a designated spot and follow a progression from the warm-up pool, competition pool, warm-down pool and exit. The number of swimmers who can be in the same lane training at the same time is limited to a maximum of four. Multiple sessions are being staged to keep the number of swimmers at the complex at one time lower.