RIO DE JANEIRO — Decades ago, before there was such a thing as an Olympic swimming veteran, Maya DiRado would not have been a story for the same reason she is a story today. For instance, back ...

Talk about a one-and-done. Late bloomer Maya DiRado won two golds, a silver and bronze in her first and last Olympics, capping the final meet of her career with a stunning upset of triple gold ...

Maya DiRado could win multiple medals in Rio. RIO DE JANEIRO – Maya DiRado begins a one-week goodbye to competitive swimming Saturday. Despite DiRado’s obvious physical talents, her mind is ...

Maya DiRado makes her debut at the Olympics today in a preliminary 400m individual medley. Her husband, Rob, was also a swimmer when they met.

Her future in the pool appears limitless. Maya DiRado is almost the complete opposite. The 23-year-old is an Olympics first-timer who will retire from the sport after returning from Brazil.

The USA’s Maya DiRado swam her heart out Saturday night, going faster than ever before in the grueling 400-meter individual medley. But even though DiRado swam the race of her life, she was ...

Maya DiRado a Stanford graduate has won a gold, silver, and bronze medal so far in the 2016 Rio Olympics. This will be her first and last Olympics.

Maya DiRado, of Stanford, celebrates after winning the 200-yard individual medley at the NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Thursday, March 20, 2014.

Chase Kalisz, Maya DiRado find silver linings on a fast, but not fast enough, night August 6, 2016 By Barry Svrluga ...

What better way to end an athletic career than with a victory? Maya DiRado had four in Rio, two of them gold, in the last swim meet of her career.

Until that summer afternoon when 6-year-old Maya DiRado accompanied her family to a cookout at a friend's house, her parents thought her future was in ballet. Two things happened that day that ...

Just ask Maya DiRado, who completed a walk-off grand slam Friday night with one last windmill stroke to beat Hungary's Katinka Hosszu by a touch for the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke.