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30 Jun 1985
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Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games
Quest for greatness in the pool driving Olympic swimming champion Zhang Yufei
The 27-year-old is the most decorated Olympian in Chinese history, with 10 medals across the past two Olympic Games.
4 hours ago
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
How Olympians think about success and failure – and what we can learn from them
12 Jan 2026 - 8:08PM
Trending in China
China aircraft carrier allows use of naked flames for TCM therapy popular with troops
26 Dec 2025 - 6:00PM
2025 National Games
Mental barriers needn’t hold Hongkongers back at National Games: ex-swimmer Kong
Now a mental health advocate who turned her competitive struggles into insight, she says key is ‘a balance between enjoyment and performing’.
5 Nov 2025 - 8:00AM
Swimming
Yu Zidi close to medal again as McIntosh, US relay women rule at swimming worlds
Summer McIntosh equals Phelps feat with her fourth gold at World Aquatics Championships, US break world record in women’s 4x100m medley.
3 Aug 2025 - 11:26PM
Swimming
Chinese record under threat from Canada’s McIntosh at swimming worlds
Singapore-bound teen is first swimmer to set three world records in different events since Michael Phelps did it at 2008 Beijing Olympics.
24 Jul 2025 - 1:24AM
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Fame and celebrity
Meet Nicole Johnson, Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps’ wife
The couple met at the 2007 ESPY Awards but had an on-and-off relationship before finally getting married in 2016 – they exchanged vows thrice
13 Aug 2024 - 7:00PM
SCMP Highlights
Swimming legend Phelps on China’s Pan, Singapore’s uber-rich: 7 highlights
From Michael Phelps refusing to ‘point finger’ at China’s Pan to Singapore’s uber-rich foreigners not flaunting wealth, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.
9 Aug 2024 - 12:35PM
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Doping, double standards and how TUEs muddy the waters of China row with the US
The accusations flung at China’s swimmers in Paris form part of a larger row between the world’s two superpowers.
8 Aug 2024 - 5:26AM
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
US legend Phelps refuses to ‘point finger’ at Chinese Olympics star Pan Zhanle
Swimming star hails Olympic 100m sprint champion Noah Lyles for revealing mental health struggle, ‘he was vulnerable at his happiest moment’.
9 Aug 2024 - 11:06AM
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Fame and celebrity
Meet Snoop Dogg’s ‘boss lady’ wife of 27 years, Shante Broadus
Snoop Dogg and his long-time wife Shante Broadus celebrated their 27th anniversary in June – here’s what you need to know about the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ rapper’s entrepreneurial partner
5 Aug 2024 - 6:00AM
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
While you were sleeping: tennis silver for China and 4 other things you missed
French swimming star took another Michael Phelps record and a fourth gold of the Games, while the host nation knocked Argentina out of the football.
3 Aug 2024 - 7:54AM
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Olympic champion Popovici says Pan world record an ‘amazing’ performance
Romanian David Popovici finished third in 100m freestyle event, 48 hours after winning 200m freestyle gold at Paris Games.
3 Aug 2024 - 6:54AM
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Ng unsure he can call himself ‘Olympian’ after being unable to finish triathlon
The Hongkonger said he had made a good start in the swim leg before his wetsuit was grabbed at and torn, making him feel he was ‘swimming with a parachute’.
1 Aug 2024 - 11:29AM
Fame and celebrity
The next Michael Phelps? Meet swimmer Caeleb Dressel, at the Paris Olympics
The Florida swimmer, who is competing in the Paris Olympics 2024, has already set multiple records and scored deals with Speedo, Omega, Toyota and Nobull
31 Jul 2024 - 6:00AM
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Little sign of Olympic truce as conflict rages around the world
The International Olympic Committee revived the Olympic truce in 1992, but hostilities continue in Ukraine and Gaza, while tensions between the US and China go far beyond the battle to top the medal table.
21 Jul 2024 - 12:00PM
Singapore
Did Singapore underestimate costs of hosting World Aquatics Championships?
Singapore will hold some of World Aquatics Championship’s events in a temporary pool in a car park, with some sources saying costs in the initial hosting bid were underestimated.
13 Jul 2024 - 12:44PM
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
China ‘will never’ release details on swimmers who tested positive for TMZ
China’s anti-doping agency’s remarks come as various United States representatives, including US swimmers Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt, criticised Wada’s handling of 2021 case.
28 Jun 2024 - 9:47AM
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Phelps, Schmitt call for Wada reform over handling of Chinese swimming drugs case
The Olympic swimmers took aim at the anti-doping body before a US Congress hearing, over its handling of 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned substance.
4 Jul 2024 - 3:59PM
Millionaires and billionaires
5 of the richest swimmers in the world in 2024 – net worths, ranked
In and out of the pool, these 5 swimmers have made millions with top-shelf prize money, lucrative brand endorsements, investments, businesses and more – but who holds the most impressive record?
22 May 2024 - 4:00AM
Fame and celebrity
Meet Cody Simpson, Australia’s Paris Olympics 2024 hopeful … and pop star
Simpson found fame as a pop star and counts Kylie Jenner and Gigi Hadid as exes; he paused his music career to revive his childhood swimming dreams and aims to compete at Paris 2024
16 May 2024 - 5:00AM
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Singapore’s only Olympic champion bids farewell as swimmer Schooling retires
Dubbed ‘Singapore’s Flying Fish’, Schooling stunned the world when he beat the legendary Michael Phelps to win gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
2 Apr 2024 - 1:14PM
Fame and celebrity
What has former Olympic legend Michael Phelps been up to since retirement?
Now retired from swimming, the record-breaking, multimillionaire former pro swimmer got married in 2015, has 4 sons and is a strong advocate for mental health – particularly among youth
18 Mar 2024 - 6:00PM
Trending in China
Little girl learns acupuncture from grandmother, practices on family
A five-year-old girl in China who learned to practise the ancient technique of acupuncture from her Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor grandmother has amazed mainland social media.
11 Feb 2024 - 2:00PM
SCMP’s 120th anniversary
120 years of SCMP: our photographer chasing after the perfect shot for 34 years
While covering tragedies such as the Thailand tsunami in 2004 and Sichuan earthquake in 2008, Robert Ng confronted tragedy but reminded himself he has a job to do.
8 Nov 2023 - 10:47AM
US Open (tennis)
New mother Naomi Osaka eyes Australian Open return, busy 2024
The 25-year-old Japanese tennis star says she will play ‘way more tournaments than I used to’ as she looks to gradually regain form.
7 Sep 2023 - 6:30PM
Swimming
Will Haughey’s rival O’Callaghan swim at World Championships after knee scare?
‘I think it’s just a tweak,’ Mollie O’Callaghan’s coach says, with weeks to go until showdown in Japan, as Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey targets her first gold.
28 Jun 2023 - 3:05PM
Singapore
‘Not at level to perform’: Singapore Olympic champ Schooling out of SEA Games
Joseph Schooling, who has been performing his two years of mandatory military service, was mired in a drug controversy last year after he confessed to consuming cannabis overseas.
2 Mar 2023 - 8:55AM
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