Katie Ledecky didn’t need the clock to know the competition was close. After she touched the wall at the end of the 800-meter freestyle final in Singapore, however, she had to check it, because, for ...

The United States, which had a frustrating swim world championships, ended on a high note Sunday with a world record in the women’s 4×100 medley relay in the last event of the eight-day championships.

But after seeing the early promise of Bouchard, Andreescu and Fernandez result in something less than world domination, we ...