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Performance Boosters for Swimmers: What Can Help By Allie Clark and Wilson Josephson, Swimming World College Interns As a new season begins, we’ve taken a look at some interesting foods athletes have adopted as ways of getting the most out of their bodies. These super foods for swimmers may surprise...

Los Angeles 2028 Aquatics Schedule: Triathlon Gets First Medals, Water Polo Gets Early Start The schedule for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics dropped on Wednesday, 975 days away from the Opening Ceremony on July 14, 2028. It gives athletes aspiring to the games concrete targets to aim at, and can help...

Finally, Goggles That Don’t Fog Up. Meet Maritonia’s HydroClear Lenses For decades, swimmers have treated foggy goggles as inevitable. The routine is familiar: stop on the wall, take your goggles off, wipe, re-set—and hope clarity lasts a few laps. Maritonia was founded to challenge that assumption ...

World Triathlon Aims for T100 Olympic Inclusion for 2032 Games World Triathlon is pushing to add the T100 distance to the Olympics as soon as the 2032 Games in Brisbane. The current Olympic distance, which is raced in the World Triathlon Championship Series, is a 1.5-kilometer swim, 40-kilometer bik...

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...

Swim Set for Triathletes: One-Hour Freestyle Workout With Options The daily challenge for a swimmer practicing by themselves, whether for fitness, competitive goals in the pool or open water or to prepare for triathlons, is creating a practice plan that is engaging and challenging, allowing the swim...

Practical Training Book is a Must-have for Time-Crunched Triathletes & Open-Water Swimmers Expert coaches and authors Conrad Goeringer (The Working Triathlete), and Rob Sleamaker ( SERIOUS Training for Endurance Athletes) have announced the publication of their new book, Triathlon Freestyle Simplifi...

Tokyo Triathlon Medalists Taylor Knibb, Morgan Pearson Lead 2024 Paris Team Taylor Knibb and Morgan Pearson, members of the United States’ silver-winning mixed relay in Tokyo, will return to the Olympics in Paris at the head of a five-strong delegation. Kirsten Kasper and Taylor Spivey join Knibb on...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. At her final NCAA championships in 2017, Emily Cameron swam in the consolation finals of both IM events and was the breaststroker on Georgia’s medley relays. She had been a part of two national championship-winning Georgia teams (in 2014 and 2016), and she was a final...

Summer Rappaport Journey from Villanova Swimming to Olympic Triathlete It started out causally enough, though little in Summer Rappaport’s athletic career seems without intention or dedication. In the spring of 2010, Rappaport had wrapped up a successful freshman season at Villanova University. A di...

TOLENTINO, Italy, April 2. ARENA’S roster of super-elite athletes added a major name today, when Olympic and world champion Yannick Agnel signed a deal with the swimsuit maker through the 2016 Olympics. Agnel is very familiar with Arena, having raced in the company’s suits when he won two gold medal...

By Sydney Mason, Swimming World College Intern. Most high school swimmers don’t sign on to swim for four years of college swimming. We continue our lives, sans pool, with team hoodies and Speedo backpacks serving as the only indicators that we were once torpedoes in the water. We slowly lose muscle ...

By McKenna Ehrmantraut, Swimming World College Intern  Once the age group days are over and you’ve swum your way through your high school and college days, you are likely taking a nice deep breath and dreaming of sleeping in past 5 a.m. Maybe you'll finally get rid of those dark circles under your e...

By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. Not all heroes wear capes: they can come in all shapes and sizes. You don’t need an abundance of materialistic resources at your disposal to make a difference. Everyone has the potential to inspire someone else when they own the reality that they have ...

BELCONNEN, Australia, April 23. THE swimmers attending this summer's Youth Olympic Games will get two Olympic medalists as mentors, with today's announcement that Patrick Murphy will serve as an Athlete Role Model to the teenage athletes in Nanjing, China. Murphy will be joined by Olympic champion C...

Paris Olympics: Golds to Cassandre Beaugrand and Alex Yee After Seine Finally Deemed Suitable for Triathlons After days of concern, canceled training sessions and the postponement of the men’s event, the men’s and women’s Olympic triathlons were held on Wednesday morning in Paris. Due to unsafe wate...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 13. THE Endless Pool® Elite is the latest high tech addition to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, the flagship training center of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The facility’s aquatic center, used for instruction and development of Team USA’s world-...

PHOENIX, Arizona, November 25. SWIMMINGWORLD.TV brings you another episode of SwimOutlet.com Tech Talk devoted to educating consumers on cutting-edge products in aquatics. In this episode, Tiffany Elias is joined by Jessica Lester, the Triathlon Tech Rep for TYR, to discuss the advanced technologica...

By Kelsey Mitchell, Swimming World College Intern. The good news for retired swimmers is that there are several athletic outlets available to scratch your competitive itch, one being triathlons. Many of those who compete in the multisport events have backgrounds in competitive swimming. Triathlons, ...

By Michael Collins In an upset victory Brigitte MacMahon, of Switzerland out-sprinted Michellie Jones to win the Gold Medal (2:00.40-2:00.42)in the first medal event of the 2000 Olympics. Magali Messmer, also of Switzerland, took home the bronze. Americans placed very well too, with Joanna Zeiger fi...