{"id":423141,"date":"2020-03-18T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=423141"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:04:08","slug":"welcome-home-to-swimming-world-a-fresh-look-in-a-season-of-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/welcome-home-to-swimming-world-a-fresh-look-in-a-season-of-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home To Swimming World & A Fresh Look In A Season Of Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swimming World<\/strong> wants you to feel at home, so we’ve made a little space, moved some furniture and hope you like what you see. It’s the first phase of a new dawn and longer-term development that aims to help you find and always know where to look for the articles and features and themes you’re most interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve set some goals and a process is underway. One aim is to live up to the second word in the title – World, and we trust you’ve noticed the work already underway.
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\nSwimming and aquatics sport in general are home to a vast ocean of people, speeds, talents, paces, interests, skills, roles and topics within topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a diverse readership around the world, too, complete with unique reasons to visit Swimming World and a variety of ways of accessing a vast library of content, from news and views to analysis, in-depth features, guidance and inspiration, and the context of a rich history in partnership with the International Swimming Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

We have quantity in abundance but our aim is to bring you quality, insight, fine journalism, truth without fear or favour and insightful reflection of a world of water brimming with skills and thrills, personalities, leaders, pioneers, pathfinders, the fearless and the unsung heroes who provide the foundations and cornerstones of a pantheon second to none in world sport.<\/p>\n

Many in aquatic sports are living through hard and challenging times, with more of that to come in the weeks and months ahead. Plans, goals and dreams have been washed away by the wave of coronavirus spreading rapidly around the globe.<\/p>\n

If the sporting landscape has become a desert in a matter of weeks, through canceled and postponed events, there is no shortage of grit and determination out there, be it at the elite level or down at the local club finding digital ways to get around social distancing and isolation and keep the body and mind fit for purpose and a time when the rains will return and a new season can begin.<\/p>\n

The Swimming World team is one for all seasons. Since Swimming World<\/em> celebrated Independence Day in the United States last year by welcoming Craig Lord and John Lohn<\/strong><\/a> back to the fold as editors to oversee the newsroom, the team has grown and now boasts a fine lineup of correspondents.<\/p>\n

Our new home page reflects a little of that change today, with the following sections added to the library:<\/p>\n