North Carolina beachgoers are accustomed to seeing a lot of different creatures in the ocean, but an alligator turns heads.
Numerous Facebook posts on Friday noted the presence of an alligator swimming in the surf at Oak Island.
Chuck McCullen of Cary said he and his family saw a crowd of people walking down the shoreline watching something in the water. He thought it was a turtle.
It wasn’t.
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Indonesia will bid to host the 2032 Olympics following the success of the Asian Games held there over the past two weeks, President Joko “Jokowi†Widodo said in a surprise announcement Saturday that highlights the rising ambition of the giant but long underperforming Southeast Asian nation.
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Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has completed an unprecedented length of the English Channel, a 330-mile journey which has taken 49 days. Here’s a look back at his journey.
Olympic swimming champion Simone Manuel made a stop at Norfolk’s Southside Aquatic Center for a very special cause.
Preparation and musings on Paul Newsome’s training for the 2018 Otillo World Championships
Erin Darke, of hit shows like “Dietland†and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,†talks about body image pressure in Hollywood and how putting more women in power can help.
In the second installation of our five-part series exploring self-image and identity through hair, made in collaboration with Bedhead, we feature the story of Writer, Model and former Olympic Athlete, Casey Legler. From having long hair as a child, to shaving her head as an Olympic swimmer (something that only the male swimmers were allowed to do), to becoming a bleached blond with long flowing hair in her 20’s, to rocking her signature short, slicked-back look of today, the winding journey of Casey’s hair has articulated points of rebellion against society’s idea of what a woman should look like, compliance with that standard, and ultimately a growing comfort in who she is.
Swimming doesn’t seem like a complicated sport with a lot of rules. However, there are at least 26 rules that can get you disqualified.
This is what most of my days working as a pool manager looked like during the amazing summer of 2016.
