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Forbes
5 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
NBC Sports Announces Deal To Air Swimming Beyond Olympics Through 2028
NBC Sports and USA Swimming announced that NBC Sports will continue to cover the sport's top domestic events every year through 2028 on NBC, Peacock and CNBC. This includes the TYR Pro Swim Series, Toyota National Championships and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. The partnership aims to make competitive swimming more accessible to fans nationwide, not just during the Olympic Trials or Olympic Games, but throughout the entire year. The most recent 2025 TYR Pro Swim Series was held in Fort Lauderdale in April, where Katie Ledecky broke her own world record in the 800 freestyle. The meet ran from April 30 to May 3, and Ledecky also posted her fastest 400 freestyle time since the 2016 Rio Olympics. The 28-year-old clocked her second-fastest 1500 freestyle ever as well—a time that would have been faster than the one that won her gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Two nights of finals were streamed live on Peacock, and all sessions were also available on the USA Swimming Network. The series featured several other Olympic gold medalists, including Bobby Finke, Caeleb Dressel, Gretchen Walsh and more. Walsh, fresh off helping the Virginia Cavaliers win their fifth consecutive NCAA championship, also broke the world record in the 100 butterfly and became the first woman to swim the event in under 55 seconds. The 2025 Toyota National Championships, set for June 3–7, will be held at the Indiana University Natatorium. It's a major meet for swimmers, including Ledecky and Walsh, and fans, especially since it will decide the U.S. team for the World Championships in Singapore this July and August. All sessions will stream on the USA Swimming Network, with finals airing on Peacock. Looking ahead, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships will return in August 2026 in Irvine, California, marking the event's first appearance on NBC Sports in eight years. Typically held every four years, the meet rotates among the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia. The U.S. roster will include up to 26 men and 26 women, selected based on results from key 2025 meets, including the National Championships, World Aquatics Championships, World University Games, World Aquatics Junior Championships and the TYR Pro Summer Championships. According to USA Swimming, the full Pan Pacs roster will be announced on or before September 8, 2025. In addition to the new swimming deal, NBC will also broadcast the 2028 U.S. Olympic Trials and the Los Angeles Olympic Games. NBCUniversal holds U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games through 2036, including Milan Cortina (2026), Los Angeles (2028), French Alps (2030), Brisbane (2032), Salt Lake City (2034) and the 2036 Summer Olympics. NBC has been broadcasting the Olympics for decades. It first aired the Summer Games in 1964 and has covered every Summer Olympics since 1988. Over the years, NBC has introduced innovations in swimming and diving coverage, such as the debut of the Moby-Cam underwater camera at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the Emmy-winning Dive-Cam at the 1996 Atlanta Games. With rights secured through 2036, NBCUniversal will have broadcast a total of 24 Olympic Games by that year.
NBC Sports
12 hours ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
KATIE LEDECKY HEADLINES TOYOTA NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGINNING TOMORROW, JUNE 3, AT 7 P.M. ET LIVE EXCLUSIVELY ON PEACOCK
Olympic Gold Medalists Kate Douglass, Torri Huske, and Regan Smith Expected to Compete at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, June 3-7 Commentators: Jason Knapp (Play-by-Play), Rowdy Gaines (Analyst), Nicole Auerbach (Reporter) USA Swimming and NBC Sports Agree to Media Rights Extension Through 2028; Click Here for More STAMFORD, Conn. – June 2, 2025 – Beginning tomorrow, Peacock will stream five consecutive nights of live swimming competition as 14-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky leads the United States' top swimmers in the Toyota National Championships at Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. Live coverage begins tomorrow, June 3, at 7 p.m. ET exclusively on Peacock. Daily live coverage of the National Championships streams exclusively on Peacock, beginning tomorrow, June 3, at 7 p.m. ET through the final day of competition on Saturday, June 7. NBC will present two encore presentations on Saturday at 2 p.m. ET and Sunday at 3 p.m. ET. The top two finishers per event — plus up to the top six in the 100m and 200m freestyles for relay purposes — make the team for the World Championships in Singapore from July 11-Aug. 3, should they meet a minimum qualifying time and the total roster not exceed 26 swimmers per gender. Ledecky is coming off a momentous performance at the TYR Pro Swim Series event in Fort Lauderdale on April 30-May 3, where the nine-time Olympic gold medalist swam the second-fastest time in history in the 1500m freestyle, her second-fastest time ever in the 400m free and her first world record in the 800m free, her trademark event, since the 2016 Rio Games. Ledecky is expected to contest the 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m frees, and can add on to her 30 career U.S. titles. She is also the most decorated U.S. female Olympian of all time. The U.S., which led the swimming medal count at the Olympics (28) for a ninth consecutive Games this past summer in Paris, is expected to have an elite roster on display this week, including five-time Olympic medalist Kate Douglass, three-time Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske, eight-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith, and four-time Olympic medalist Gretchen Walsh. On the men's side, U.S. Olympic gold medalists Bobby Finke, Jack Alexy, Chris Guiliano are also expected to line up. NBC Sports' Jason Knapp will call the action alongside three-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines. Nicole Auerbach will serve as reporter. Last week, USA Swimming and NBC Sports agreed to a multi-year extension of their media rights partnership through 2028. NBC Sports will continue to present USA Swimming's premier domestic events, such as the Toyota National Championships, the TYR Pro Swim Series, and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a once-per-quad international competition featuring the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The event will return to NBC Sports in 2026 after an eight-year hiatus. To learn more, click here. Broadcast Team Play-by-play: Jason Knapp Analyst: Rowdy Gaines Reporter: Nicole Auerbach How To Watch – Tuesday, June 3 – Sunday, June 8 (all times ET) Streaming: Peacock (LIVE) TV: NBC *Encore coverage --NBC SPORTS--
NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
USA SWIMMING AND NBC SPORTS ANNOUNCE MEDIA RIGHTS EXTENSION THROUGH 2028
NBC Sports Remains Home of USA Swimming's Top Events Through 2028, Including Toyota National Championships, TYR Pro Swim Series, and Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Live Coverage Featured Across NBC, Peacock, and CNBC STAMFORD, Conn. – May 29, 2025 – NBC Sports will continue to present USA Swimming's most prestigious events on NBC and Peacock through 2028 as part of a multi-year extension of their partnership, both parties announced today. Every year until 2028, NBC Sports will present USA Swimming's premier domestic events, such as the Toyota National Championships, the TYR Pro Swim Series, and the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a once-per-quad international competition featuring the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan. The event will return to NBC Sports in 2026 after an eight-year hiatus. NBC Sports' commitment to USA Swimming is in addition to its coverage of the 2028 U.S. Olympic Trials and Los Angeles Olympic Games and further showcases its commitment to Olympic sports coverage between Olympic Games. 'We are proud to extend our partnership with NBC Sports through 2028, ensuring that fans across the country can continue to experience the thrill of elite swimming on one of the most iconic sports platforms in the world,' said Bob Vincent, Interim CEO of USA Swimming. 'From the National Championships to the Olympic Team Trials and into the Los Angeles Olympic Games, NBC's reach and storytelling elevates our athletes and the sport of swimming in an unparalleled manner.' 'For decades, swimming has provided so many of the most memorable moments at the Olympic Games, including last summer in Paris led by all-time great Katie Ledecky,' said Joe Gesue, SVP, NBC Sports Olympic & Paralympic Programming. 'We are proud to partner with USA Swimming to follow the journeys of these incredible athletes for another four years on the road to LA28, and showcase their incredible stories and performances across all of our platforms.' Team USA Swimming earned 28 medals – eight of them gold – at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the most of any country. It was the ninth consecutive Olympics that the U.S. has won the swimming medal count. Katie Ledecky won four Olympic medals, bringing her total Olympic medal count to 14 and making her the most decorated U.S. female Olympian of all time. NBCUniversal owns the U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games through 2036, which are scheduled for Milan Cortina (2026), Los Angeles (2028), French Alps (2030), Brisbane (2032), Salt Lake City (2034), and the 2036 Summer Olympics. ABOUT NBC SPORTS NBC Sports connects sports fans to the moments that matter most with premier live events, insightful studio shows, and compelling original programming. As the sports division of NBCUniversal, NBC Sports produces, programs, and promotes premier content across numerous linear and digital platforms, including NBC and Peacock. NBC Sports possesses an unparalleled collection of media rights agreements, partnering and presenting many of the most prestigious sports properties in the world: the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the NFL, NBA, WNBA, Big Ten Conference, Big East Conference, Notre Dame, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, USGA, PGA of America, The R&A, Churchill Downs, Premier League, and many more. It is renowned for making big events bigger and has produced some of the most-watched sporting events in U.S. media history, including Olympic Games, Super Bowls, and Sunday Night Football, primetime television's No. 1 show for 14 consecutive years. ABOUT USA SWIMMING As the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States, USA Swimming is a 380,000-member service organization that promotes the culture of swimming by creating opportunities for swimmers and coaches of all backgrounds to participate and advance in the sport through clubs, events and education. Our membership is comprised of swimmers from the age group level to the Olympic Team, as well as coaches and volunteers. USA Swimming is responsible for selecting and training teams for international competitions including the Olympic Games and strives to serve the sport through its core objectives. For more information, visit --NBC SPORTS--
Forbes
05-05-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Ledecky Closes Pro Swim Series With 800 Free World Record
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 01: Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the 400m freestyle in 3 ... More minutes, 56.81 seconds at a Tyr Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's her second-best time ever behind her 2016 Olympic swim of 3:56.46, which stood as the world record until 2022, on May 01, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) Katie Ledecky has done it again. Just a day after clocking the second-fastest 1500 freestyle of her career at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale (15:24.51), the 28-year-old followed up with her fastest 400 freestyle since the 2016 Rio Olympics. She posted a time of 3:56.81—the seventh-fastest in history and just shy of her lifetime best of 3:56.46. This swim now holds the record as the fastest 400 freestyle ever recorded by a woman on American soil. Ledecky came from behind in the race, trailing three-time Olympic champion Summer McIntosh until the final stretch. The two were neck and neck at the last flip turn, but Ledecky pulled ahead with a strong final 50 meters to secure the win. At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Australian Ariarne Titmus won the 400 freestyle with a time of 3:57.49, followed by Summer McIntosh in 3:58.37, and Katie Ledecky, who took bronze with a time of 4:00.86. That being said, Ledecky's performance at the Pro Swim Series would have been fast enough to win gold in Paris. FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 03: Katie Ledecky sets a World Record in the Women's 800m Freestyle ... More Final at Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center on May 03, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) But that wasn't the only highlight of Ledecky's performance in Fort Lauderdale. She closed the meet by breaking her own world record in the 800 freestyle—a time that had stood since the 2016 Rio Olympics. Ledecky lowered the nine-year-old record from 8:04.79 to 8:04.12, a performance that reaffirmed she's still going strong at 28. Jillian Cox finished second in 8:23.58. It was Ledecky's first world record in a long course event since 2018, when she set her lifetime best in the 1500 freestyle. Throughout her career, she has now broken 15 individual long course world records. Ledecky currently holds the 10 fastest times in history in the 800 freestyle. The next closest performer is Canada's Summer McIntosh, who posted a personal best of 8:09.86 earlier in 2025. No other woman has ever broken the 8:10 barrier. FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 03: Gretchen Walsh wins the Women's 100m Butterfly Final A with a ... More World Record at Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center on May 03, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) To top it off, Olympic gold medalist and recent 2025 NCAA champion Gretchen Walsh—fresh off helping the University of Virginia secure its fifth consecutive team title—lowered her own world record in the 100 butterfly, becoming the first woman to break 55 seconds. Her previous world record was 55.18, set during the semifinals of the U.S. Olympic Trials last June. In Fort Lauderdale, Walsh posted a 55.09 in the prelims lowering it to 54.60 in the finals. Walsh also holds the NCAA record in the 100 fly with a time of 46.97, set at the 2025 NCAA Championships, becoming the first woman to break 47 seconds in the event. Ledecky expressed her excitement for Walsh's achievement. Ledecky's training partner, Bobby Finke, also had strong performances at the Pro Swim Series. Finke won both the 800 free and 1500 free, and finished first in the 400 IM, out-touching France's Leon Marchand, who holds the world record in that event. Looking ahead, the U.S. National Championships, which will determine the team for the World Championships, are set to take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, from June 3-7.
CNN
05-05-2025
- Sport
- CNN
Katie Ledecky breaks 800m freestyle world record almost a decade after last setting it
CNN — Katie Ledecky produced a scintillating swim to break yet another world record on Saturday, this time in the women's 800m freestyle, lowering the mark she set almost a decade ago at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She recorded a time of 8:04.12 at the TYR Pro Swim Series Fort Lauderdale, shaving six-tenths of a second off her previous record and finishing almost 20 seconds ahead of her closest competitor. She now holds the top ten times ever recorded in the event. For almost 13 years, Ledecky has dominated long-distance freestyle swimming, setting record after record that no one else can touch, often competing against only herself. But it had been seven years since the American's last world record; her powers were waning, people presumed, leaving her still able to collect titles but without setting the impossibly fast times that defined her earlier career. Still, her recent results suggested Ledecky was close to reaching those heights again. On Wednesday, she set the second fastest ever time in the women's 1500m freestyle, completing the distance in 15:24.51, before her world record on Saturday. 'I can't stop smiling, it's been like that all week though, so it's not really new,' she said after the race, per USA Swimming. 'It's been so many years in the making to do it tonight. It's been an incredible night.' 'The crowd was amazing tonight; I couldn't have done it without that. I flipped at the 750, and it was loud in here, and I just told myself I'm not letting this opportunity go to waste and started sprinting.' As Ledecky touched the wall and looked up at the screen to see her time, the crowd erupted, knowing she had broken the record. A fraction of a second later, Ledecky celebrated as well, smashing the water with her hands and raising a fist in triumph. And on the same day, her compatriot Gretchen Walsh became the first woman to complete the 100m butterfly in less than 55 seconds, recording a time of 54.60 to lower the world record she set earlier that day. Ledecky noted after her own record that 'tonight is the first (record) I've done when another American has done it. Hats off to Gretchen for getting us rolling this morning and starting a world record party.'
