Aquatics

Rebecca Adlington celebrates after winning the women's 800m freestyle swimming final with a new world record

Golden Adlington identifies London as the 'main target'

From virtual unknown to national treasure. Britain has already discovered a vast amount about Rebecca Adlington, double Olympic champion, these past few days.

Inside Aquatics

Phelps revels in the power of eight

Monday, 18 August 2008

He did it. Eight finals. Eight golds. Eight records, seven of them new world standards, and the other a fresh Olympic mark. By earning another gold medal yesterday, in the 4x100 medley relay, Michael Phelps did not so much rewrite the record books as start a new one. If he were a nation of one, he'd be looking at a top-10 finish in the medals table.

Phelps' magnificent seven

Sunday, 17 August 2008

With apologies to Alex Ferguson: swimming, bloody hell. On yet another barely credible day in the sporting life of America's titanic dolphin man, Michael Phelps came from behind yesterday to win the equivalent of a photo finish by a whisker in the 100m butterfly to earn his seventh gold medal of these Games.

Star of pool is all-time great

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Arise Dame Rebecca Adlington. The cry is sure to come soon, and loud, from the British public, as the bookmakers already make the East Midlands teen-ager favourite for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Phelps wins record eighth Olympic gold

Sunday, 17 August 2008

It was billed as a team relay race, but it was only about one man, Michael Phelps. From the moment he walked into the Water Cube swimming pool at the head of the U.S. team, all eyes were fixed on him and his quest to win a record eighth gold medal at a single Olympics.