French sensation Leon Marchand shattered the Olympic record in the 400 IM en route to the win. Tomoyuki Matsushita followed with a medal in his Olympic...
Swimming prodigy Mizuki Hirai won the 100-meter butterfly at Japan's Olympic trials in March. Now, she has her sights on success at the Paris Olympics.
Data gathered in counting Japan's butterflies help indicate which species are decreasing and warn us about the deterioration of biodiversity in general.
Known for lovely handcrafted creations, the root of her energy goes in part back to a humiliating episode in 1961, when she debuted in New York.