First look: Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps

American swimming legend Mark Spitz posed with the new Sports Illustrated Magazine featuring Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps on the cover at the Hyatt Resorts 'Vacation Training Camp'......

PICS: Magical Marchand takes fourth swimming gold

Images from the Olympics swimming action at the La Defense Arena, Paris, on Friday. IMAGE: France's Leon Marchand celebrates winning gold in the men's 200m Individual Medley and setting a new......

The Greatest Olympians!

Photograph: Kind courtesy Michael Phelps/Instagram   Every four years, the world holds its breath, as the Olympics bring the world together. Athletes, trained to peak perfection, compete for......

Spitz advice to Phelps: less is more

Mark Spitz's advice to Michael Phelps ahead of the London Olympics would be that, when you have already won more gold medals at a single Games than any swimmer in history, less could turn out to be......

PHOTOS: The leading modern Olympians

The leading 12 Olympic athletes since the Games were revived in 1896. Paavo Nurmi (Finland, 1897-1973) Nurmi, the greatest of the "Flying Finns" who revolutionised distance running, was a......