Category: Competition
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Caeleb Dressel: Feature Interview Preview | In Depth With Graham Bensinger
Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel invites Graham to his farm and training grounds in Florida for a candid conversation about the extreme highs and lows that come with Olympic fame, including why he had to step away from the pool following the Tokyo Games. Sports Illustrated’s 2021 “Athlete of the Year” discusses what he…
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Fanny Lecluyse 🇧🇪 VS Arianna Castiglioni 🇮🇹 | Swim Off | 18th FINA World Championships
Let’s look back at the swim-off for the last spot in the finals 😱 Who prevailed in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke?
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Swimming: Schooling Was Done, and Then He Changed His Mind About Retiring | The Straits Times
For a brief few hours this year, Joseph Schooling decided he was done with swimming and ready to hang up his swim trunks and goggles. This was in the period after his meek showing at the Tokyo Olympics last August and his next race seven months later at the Singapore National Age Group Championships (SNAG).…
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Legal Action Threatened Over Anti-Trans Billboards Displaying Australian Female Swimmers | The Project
The AOC and Swimming Australia are threatening legal action over billboards campaigning against trans-women in sport. Swimming star Emily Seebohm, whose image was used in the campaign, joins us.
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Biological Males Are ‘Always’ Going to Be Faster: Emily Seebohm | Sky News Australia
Australian Swimmer Emily Seebohm has weighed into the transgender sporting debate saying there’s nothing worse than training for years only to have it thrown away because “someone was biologically fitter, stronger (and) faster than you”. “Biological males are always going to be stronger, fitter, faster than biological females,” Ms Seebhom told Sky News host Peta…
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Overcoming the Distinct Challenge of Indoor Swimming | Waterman | American Masters | PBS
After smashing the Amateur Athletic Union’s world record in 1911, Duke Kahanamoku was brought from Hawaii to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to prove his talents in another race. But Duke found his mind and body shocked by his first time swimming in an indoor pool. Though he lost this race, he would go on to win many…
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The Breakout Swimmer of 2022? | The Social Kick
From practice to prom, to the podium? Teenage super phenom Claire Curzan joins us to chat about her prep for the upcoming US World Championship Trials. Already an Olympic silver medalist and American record holder, Claire has been carving her name into the record books since she was a kid, and so far in 2022,…
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‘It Needs to Be Fair’: Aussie Swimmer Weighs in on Transgender Athlete Debate | 9 News Australia
Australian swimming star and Olympic gold medalist, Emily Seebohm, has her say on the transgender athlete debate claiming that everyone should be included, but that “we also need to think of fairness”.
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Olympian Michael Phelps Opens Up About Mental Health | Bloomberg
Swimming legend Michael Phelps opens up to Chris Paul about his struggle with mental health on How I Got On the first episode of Bloomberg’s How I Got Here with Chris Paul, Paul sits down with 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps to talk about his life as a competitive swimmer, his highest and lowest moments and how he…