Read more1The Longest Swim: Benoit Lecomte Takes on the Pacific09 June 2018By Abigail Sheridan, Swimming World Intern. As if Benoit Lecomte didn't have the adventure of a lifetime while swimming across the Atlantic Ocean in 1998, he and his team set off for another expedition on June 5, 2018. This time, the French distance swimmer is aiming to cross the Pacific Ocean over...
US Olympic Trials - The real heroes seldom get wet11 August 2000By Jim Lutz Walking out of trials last night I heard an interesting comment from one of the coaches. This was not a "rookie" coach but a seasoned coach of many national qualifiers and Olympic Trial participants. He felt he had not done his job correctly because his athlete fell short of making the O...
Read more1Talking Trash? Adventurer Ben Lecomte Embarks on Swimming Through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch04 July 2019By Sarah Berman, Swimming World College Intern. Ben Lecomte doesn't swim for performance accolades: he swims to spur global change. "I'm not an Olympic swimmer. I am an adventurer who likes to swim." He does not set out every day to win a gold medal and stand on top of a podium; his focus is being a...
Read moreSwim Around Key West Set for June 1415 May 2014KEY WEST, Florida Keys, May 15. LONG-distance swimming enthusiasts are to compete in a 12.5-mile open-water swim Saturday, June 14, on a route that circumnavigates the island of Key West Solo swimmers and relay teams of two to six people, with or without fins, are to compete in the annual Florida Ke...
Amidst Controversy, Swimming Hall of Fame Plans to Move to Pompano Beach03 December 2001Editor's note: Over the past few months, the International Swimming Hall of Fame - ISHoF - located in Ft. Lauderdale, has been at the center of a host of controversies that have swirled around it, with charges and countercharges being hurled about. In this article, Buck Dawson, Executive Directo...
Mare Nostrum, Rome Day 2: Esposito Sends a Message to Malchow30 May 2000ROME, May 31. France's Franck Esposito sent a message loud and clear, from the Italian peninsula and all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, addressed to one Thomas Malchow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The message: Don't start counting any chickens in Sydney yet, baby. You've got yourself a ba...
Read moreThe Week That Was: 5 Headlines You Might Have Missed30 June 2014PHOENIX, Arizona, June 30. BEFORE we turn the calendar to July, let's take a look back at the top five swimming headlines of the last full week of June. As always we start with number five in our countdown, and that takes us across the Atlantic Ocean to Great Britain. YouTube Measures Views Only For...