Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel ...

When I was a small child, my mother often brought me along when she taught physical education at a small women’s college, run by nuns who were happy to have a young married woman to handle fencing ...

The 1984 U.S. Olympic swim team needed less than one minute to pick up its first two gold medals. In the 100-meter freestyle – the first swimming event of the Los Angeles Games – American teammates ...

Swimming has always been one of the most exciting events at the Olympics. The sound of the crowd and the tension before the buzzer always stay. The rush of water as athletes race to the wall causes ...