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We've all been there. You strike up a conversation with someone and they ask what sport you play. Jokingly, you respond that you "play" swimming. Before you know it, you are bombarded with a number of well-intentioned questions and statements. It makes your head spin how much people don't understand...

By Colin Hogan, Swimming World College Intern Perhaps it’s fitting that 2016 has seen a renaissance of social activism in sports. On June third of this year Muhammad Ali passed away after a decades long struggle with Parkinson’s syndrome. He was a fighter in every sense of the word, a champion for t...

From the Paint to the Pool: The Events Your Favorite NBA Stars Would (Probably) Swim For those living inside of a bubble for the last few months (no pun intended), the NBA Bubble finished off a somewhat miraculous run Sunday night, as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, four games to two...

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

Basketball star LeBron James is helping teach children to swim, with some major help from Olympian Simone Manuel, according to a recent feature on ESPN.com. The program is part of Lebron James’ I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, which hosted their first-ever week-long summer camp focused entirely on s...

PHOENIX - LeBron James makes a big splash (actually he makes a very little splash) as he enjoys all the benefits of a swimming pool. All the best athletes know the benefit of cross training, especially basketball great LeBron James. We came across this fun video in which James -- in several personal...

Time Inc.’s (NYSE: TIME) Sports Illustrated honored LeBron James as the 2016 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year at a star-studded gala at Barclays Center in New York on Monday night. Grammy award-winning artist Jay Z paid tribute to the Cleveland Cavaliers star in a speech in which he recog...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, February 26. MISSY Franklin will represent aquatic sports next month at the prestigious Laureus Sports Awards, nominated in the Sportswoman of the Year category. Three swimmers will compete for the World Sportsperson of the Year With a Disability award after strong performanc...

Swimming superstar Katie Ledecky was named to ESPN's list of the 20 most dominant athletes of the year. The panel of experts started by "grading the athletes by the strongest performance measures available in their sport over their most recently completed season, including timed scores, earnings and...

By David Rieder. Tim Hinchey took over as USA Swimming CEO in July 2017, less than a year after the organization had watched its biggest star and its face, Michael Phelps, retire for the second time. Hinchey’s friends asked him, in a sport lacking for transcendent stars, how do you compensate for t....

By David Rieder. Cullen Jones never figured he wouldn’t make the Olympic team in 2016, even with the talented field that was waiting for him in the 50 free at Olympic Trials. He was the reigning Olympic silver medalist, and he had a habit of stepping up his game in the biggest moments. But in the 50...

In a development perhaps reminiscent of LeBron James’ monumental move from Cleveland to Miami a decade ago to play with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh—a shift that made the Miami Heat two-time NBA champs—Tony Azevedo and Maggie Steffens, two of the biggest names in American water polo have joined forces...

By Andy Ross. For the fourth year in a row, the Texas Longhorns are the kings of men's swimming. It wasn't as dominating as it has been the last three years, but the Longhorns were champions once again, this time by 11.5 points. But how did they fool us once again? Texas has always seemed to come in...

Star of film, TV and comedy J.B. Smoove will host Sports Illustrated’s 2016 Sportsperson of the Year awards celebration at Barclays Center on December 12, it was announced today. The event will honor LeBron James as the 2016 Sportsperson of the Year, along with SI Muhammad Ali Legacy Award recipient...

Without live sports for fans to watch and cheer on, sports documentaries are on the rise, and Katie Ledecky will be part of it. ESPN’s “30 for 30” has been a popular show over the years with sports documentaries, but “The Last Dance” documentary by ESPN and Netflix about Michael Jordan has dominated...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault In this issue of SW Biweekly, review the best of swimming that 2019 had to offer; Aussie Ariarne Titmus setting a world record in the 400m free, competing in sprint, and drawing comparisons to Kati....

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 27. MICHAEL Andrew has been a hot topic of conversation since he became a professional swimmer at the very young age of 14, becoming the youngest swimmer to do so. In our last poll we asked you if you thought 14 years old was too young to be a professional swimmer, and 74...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Coordinator Editor’s note: For three days (April 26-28) 244 delegates from 100 countries gathered at Budapest’s InterContinental Hotel to discuss current and future prospects for water polo, the oldest Olympic team sport. Streaming media of the conference proceedi...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! In this issue of SW Biweekly, Olympic bronze medalist Cody Miller discusses the ups and downs of his career, why he swims, and the future of the sport. Check out our full finals recap of the 2019 ....

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23. AMERICAN teenager Missy Franklin, the first woman swimmer in history to win six gold medals at a single World Championships, at the age of just 18, is the latest global sports star to confirm attendance at the Laureus World Sports Awards, the premier honours event on the inte...