U.S. champion swimmer Fran Crippen died over the weekend while swimming a race in warm water in Dubai. INSIDE EDITION talks to Fran's sister about his tragic death. At 26, Fran Crippen, a six-time ...

Today marks 14 years since the death of Fran Crippen in an open-water race in Dubai that should have never taken place due to extremely high water temperatures. Swimming World annually runs this story ...

Fran Crippen died doing what he loved: swimming. But on that tragic day — Oct. 23, 2010 — the conditions were anything but optimal for doing so. A Germantown Academy graduate from Conshohocken, ...

A day after U.S. national team swimmer Fran Crippen died during an open-water race in the United Arab Emirates, the winner of the event said the water and air temperatures were too high to hold a ...

An American swimmer blamed the blazing heat, unusually warm surf and lack of medical and safety personnel on the course for the death of former University of Virginia swimmer Fran Crippen, 26, in an ...

(AP) Alex Meyer was swimming for more than himself at the Olympics. He brought along the memory of his buddy, Fran Crippen. Maybe it was a little too much to put on one guy’s shoulders. Meyer finished ...

Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte was one of several international athletes to claim victory Saturday night at the 2018 Fran Crippen Memorial SMOC in Mission Viejo, CA. Meilutyte blasted to victory in the ...

Swimmers have slammed FINA over the conditions which lead to the death of US swimmer Fran Crippen. The 26-year-old Crippen died on Saturday while competing in the FINA Open Water 10-kilometre World ...

Open-water swimming, though an Olympic event since 2008, has never been safe. In light of the Olympics returning to the United States for the first time in over three decades, USA Swimming has the ...

Alex Meyer was swimming for more than himself at the Olympics. He brought along the memory of his buddy, Fran Crippen. Maybe it was a little too much to put on one guy's shoulders. Meyer finished a ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Shock gave way to helplessness as Matt McLean processed the passing of Virginia men's swimming icon Fran Crippen. "As much as I loved Fran, I'm definitely closer to [Crippen's ...