Japanese swimming prodigy Rikako Ikee made her Tokyo Summer Olympics debut Saturday night, less than a year after returning to competition following a Leukemia diagnosis. And although she didn’t ...

Japanese swim star Rikako Ikee reacts after a women’s 50-meter freestyle at a local race meet, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. Ikee, who revealed in ...

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, the 18-year-old who is already an early favorite to medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, has been diagnosed with leukemia. Ikee announced the news via Twitter on ...

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Oct. 2. A decade ago, when America's Mike Barrowman was stroking to an Olympic gold and the world-record in the 200 meter breaststroke at Barcelona, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima was a ...

Japan’s Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women’s 100m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo ...

Little-known Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi giggled politely at the suggestion that she might have become one of the stars of her home country’s Olympics in the absence of Naomi Osaka. She dismissed the ...

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee reacts after competing in a 50-meter freestyle race at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on August 29, 2020. (Photo by - / JAPAN POOL / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo ...

One thing I have learned through my swimming career is that the swimming community is small. Someone you know always knows someone else you know. Swimming has given me friends all across the country ...

Rikako Ikee from Japan swims in Olympics heats in the women's 4 x 100 m freestyle at the Tokyo Aquatics Center. Japanese swimming prodigy Rikako Ikee made her Tokyo Summer Olympics debut Saturday ...