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As a swimmer, Jonty Skinner went down in history as the man who crushed the swimming speed that crushed the rest:  20 days after after American Jim Montgomery clocked a then stunning 49.99sec over 100m freestyle for Olympic gold at Montreal 1976, Skinner, locked out of the race by the apartheid...

Commentary from Jim Gamble, swimmer and then coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers, on his experience of growing up in swimming as "the only one", in other words, the only black kid on the blocks - and why he says "I have no idea what my life would be like if it wasn't for swimming." Coach Mark Rau...

Many grandparents have relocated to warmer climates upon retirement and have backyard pools on their property.  Also many grandparents are helping their family out by picking up and babysitting grandchildren.  The MDM Aquatics Safety/Training & Consulting, LLC, National Drowning Prevention Alliance ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government today reported 67 new coronavirus infections, the highest number of daily cases at the heart of Olympic City Tokyo 2020 since a state of emergency for the capital was lifted more than a month ago, according to city officials cited by local media. The rise comes came...

Vision for NCAA Virtual Championship During COVID-19 Era By Bob Groseth, Guest Author Berkeley, California, 1:52 p.m. Pacific time, March 22, 2022. Bjorn Carlson can’t even hear himself think as he stands behind Lane 4 for the final event of the final meet of the 2022 NCAA Dual Meet Championships. T...

Summer Swimming: A Fun Look at the Pros and Cons Swimming forces us to go to bed early in the summer, but the long course season comes with quite a few perks you may not have thought of before. Here are 11 reasons why it does (and doesn't) pay to be a swimmer in the summer: 1. Abs [caption id="attac...

The first trailer for the documentary “In Deep with Ryan Lochte” has been released by Peacock ahead of the launch of the new streaming service from NBCUniversal on July 15. The film charts the fall and reinvention of Lochte. Having let himself and team down on the last night of swimming at the Rio 2...

Is Your Pool Following Safe Guidelines During Covid-19 Pandemic? Check Here to be Sure Around the country, and moreso in some locales than others, individuals are splashing around in public pools, logging laps or following the guidance of coaches. The adjusted return to pool life has called for dill...

How Many of These 5 Swim Tricks Can You do? (With Videos) By Morgan Pestorius, Swimming World College Intern In every sport, there are certain tricks that you learn by participating. For instance, every good basketball player knows how to twirl a ball on their finger. Swimmers are no different. Thes...

Great Races: 1976 US Olympic Trials Men’s 400-Meter Freestyle By Dave Bartlett and Brenda Borgh Bartlett “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” Loren Eiseley Great races are made of great racers.  Great racers start out with a dream.  That dream becomes reality through limitle...

Non-swimmers might think we're elitist when we accidentally roll our eyes at their questions. We might think they are ignorant. If we're elitist, we're sorry. If non-swimmers are ignorant, I'm here to help! We do not expect a non-swimmer to know what 12x75s on 1:00 means or even how to move forward ...

High school swimmers Jerry Zheng and Andy Moss, from New Jersey, recently started a petition to Governor Phil Murphy to reopen pools in the state. Both high school sophomores, Zheng and Moss are teammates at Somerset Hills YMCA. Their petition has attracted almost 18,000 signatures at the time of po...

The New Zealand swimming shoal became the first among top 50 swim nations to return to standard daily pool practise, free of COVID-19 restrictions, after the Government there confirmed that there are no new or current cases of novel-coronavirus infection in the country, writes Dave Crampton. Competi...

In 1927, 17-year old Canadian George Young famously won The Wrigley Ocean Marathon across the Catalina Channel sponsored by the chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jnr.  Had Charles ‘Zimmy’ Zibleman won the race, the changes that would have brought about in Marathon and Disability Swimming might...

Coronavirus - Dealing With Stress “I’m hanging in there.” That is a typical go-to answer when anyone asks how another is feeling, how they are juggling everything going on, or how they are handling life. That answer can be a front, when the truth is the individual is feeling overwhelmed and stressed...

Swimming New Zealand Sends Swimming On New Market Voyage By Dave Crampton Three months after hiring national event manager Dale Johnson and cancelling national meets for most of this year, Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) is putting its national events, including the annual New Zealand Open champions...

Safe Return To The Pool strategies are starting to flow. As nations far and wide start to discuss exit strategies from lockdown measures imposed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has now infected more than 3.3 million people and claimed the lives of almost a quarter of a million accord...

Introducing Dryside Training!  Dryland exercises specifically designed to help swimmers and other aquatics athletes improve their performance in the water. Thinking your pull phase of your stroke is weak? Not grabbing enough water with each stroke? Fear not! Here are four exercises that can help you...

When Xonzy Gaddis, Swimming World College Intern, wrote about the potential impact of music on athletic performance in 2018, he was picking up on a theme well understood in certain quarters of the elite swimming world. Go back decades and you find archive records of coaches using music in the mi...

Editor’s Note: Given the devastation in Italy, Swimming World has taken particular interest in the circumstances surrounding aquatics sports in the European country hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis. Claudio Mangini, a well-respected journalist for Il Secolo XIX, spoke recently with the great Ra...