Year: 2019
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Hell or High Water: How Racism Kept Black America From Swimming
Now, we’ve all heard the stereotype that black folks can’t swim. But, unfortunately, that cliché is based in haunting truths. The numbers speak for themselves: 64 percent of black kids have no or low swimming ability, versus 45 percent of Latinx children and 40 percent of white kids. A 2014 study also found that black children between…
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Veteran Allison Schmitt Wins 200m Free on Day 2 of Nationals
Although Allison Schmitt never officially retired, she decided to step away from competitive swimming for more than a year following the Olympic Games Rio 2016. A comeback didn’t seem likely for the four-time Olympic gold medalist as she adjusted to life away from the pool. Now 29 years old, Schmitt is back, and the three-time…
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Is Swimming Good Cross-Training for Runners?
Swimming is a common form of cross-training for runners. But we’re left with a lot of questions: How beneficial is it compared to cycling, pool running, or the elliptical? When is it best used in a training cycle? When should you prioritize other forms of cross-training?
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Mauricio Fiol Pulls Out of Home Pan American Games After Second Positive Doping Test
Peruvian swimmer Mauricio Fiol announced on Thursday he has pulled out of the 2019 Pan American Games due to a positive doping test, multiple sources have reported. Fiol won the silver medal in the 2015 Pan American Games for Peru but was disqualified for testing positive for stanozolol, the same substance that Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson famously tested positive for in…
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Swimming from Alcatraz, and the escape from Dementia
Dr. Charlie Farrell is helping to distance dementia patients from the prison they often live in, one stroke at a time.
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Watch: Swimming from Hawaii to San Francisco to clean up the ocean
Ben Lecomte is swimming from Hawaii to San Francisco to better understand how plastic is affecting our oceans.…
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Swimmer Shayna Jack vows to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in fight to clear her name
Suspended Australian swimmer Shayna Jack says she will continue to fight to clear her name, after wrapping a lengthy meeting today with the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) in Brisbane.
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Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Eleanor Holm Among World’s Fair Performers in New York (1939)
In 1939 at the World’s Fair in the New York City borough of Queens, Olympic gold medalist swimmer Eleanor Holm (on the right in the opening shot), a native of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is among the performers at the Aquacade attraction https://youtu.be/jmOUNuuH1Rc