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By Eric Bugby, Swimming World Contributor Swan Song My last race came in the spring of 2007. It was over eight years ago, but it’s seared in my memory. I was tired, not just from a four-day prelims and finals meet, but also from a five-year collegiate career that included transferring schools, a red...

3 Qualities That Set Lifelong Swimmers Apart From The Rest By Sadie Jones, Swimming World Intern Swimming is unlike most sports because there are both individual and team aspects that athletes are forced to encounter. Throughout a swimmers career, different facets of the sport are prioritized. As at...

By Meaghan Raab, Swimming World College Intern. Have you ever been disappointed in a race or a practice? Have you ever felt that you weren’t good enough based on your performance in the pool? You are not alone in these feelings. Disappointment happens to every single person and there are ways to tak...

5 Ways That Failure Can Be Used to Find Success Any swimmer you meet, no matter what level, has a dream. Whether that dream lies within or out of the water doesn’t matter. The reality is that these dreams almost always come at a price. This price happens to be failure. No one wants to fall short of ...

Susie O'Neill's Sydney 200 'Fly Silver Still Raw  Until this week, Susie O'Neill had never watched the full video of the moment at a home Sydney 2000 Olympic Games when she battled to get back in contention with American Misty Hyman in the 200m butterfly final - and fell shy of her target as a defen...

Cate Campbell, the Australian sprint ace, sent a note of support to fellow Dolphin Susie O'Neill after watching the Olympic champion of 1996 and 2000 break down in tears as she described how 200m butterfly Olympic silver in Sydney almost 20 years ago represented "failure". If there is one current sw...

By Melissa Wolf, Swimming World College Intern. Even Olympic gold medalists have experienced failure. Don't let missing your goal by three one-hundredths of a second cause you to quit; failure is part of the process and can be used as motivation to find your true potential and biggest strengths. Thi...