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The names most often above Tyler Clary's at major meets have been Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. But on Thursday night, his resolve finally led him to his first Olympic gold medal.

LONDON -- A quick look at the action from the London Aquatics Centre on Thursday night: End of the roadMichael Phelps and Ryan Lochte faced off in the 200-meter individual medley in what is almost certainly the last head-to-head meeting in a riva...

Second is as good as first at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, and that meant Tyler Clary got to see the checkered flag at last Thursday night.

OMAHA, Neb. -- The staff at Joe's Karting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, just over the Nebraska state line, probably didn't know they had a skilled off-road driver and highly frustrated elite athlete in the house Tuesday afternoon. That was where Tyler Cla...

Tyler Clary's performance in the most punishing event in swimming would have put him on any other Olympic team in the world, but he couldn't top Ryan Lochte or Michael Phelps ... again.

Tyler Clary is the best U.S. male swimmer you've probably never heard of, and that's fine with him for the moment. He'll have a chance to change that soon enough at next week's U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

At the 2009 swimming world championships in Rome, the suits overshadowed the athletes who inhabited them. Those second skins that incorporated buoyant polyurethane -- simply referred to as "rubber suits" by the swimmers -- could take a half-hour o...