Olympic swimmer Summer McIntosh shares how growing up at the cottage shaped her love of water and her connection to Canada.
Created in honour of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, this video is part of Our Country / Notre pays, a national unity project exploring what Canada means to Canadians.
Thank you to Canadian Heritage and BMO for making this project possible.
Have you been spending hours in the pool but still not seeing the improvements you want? You’re not alone!
In this video, we explain why swimming continuous lengths won’t actually help you get faster and what you should be doing instead.
From structuring your swim sessions, to varying pace and stroke and incorporating swim aids, we share simple tips to help you optimise your time in the pool and get more out of your swimming.
How does Summer McIntosh swim so fast? In this video, from Propulsion Swimming, we are breaking down the freestyle technique of Canada’s teenage phenom and multiple World Champion.
We use the BLABT method (Body, Legs, Arms, Breathing, and Timing) to find out exactly what sets her apart in the pool.
Summer McIntosh is arguably the most technically sound freestyler in the world today. If you want to improve your swim technique or lower your PB, this is the athlete to study.
For most of human history, movement was inseparable from survival. Deliberately burning energy for no immediate purpose would have made little sense in a world where calories were scarce and bodies were costly to maintain.
Seen through an evolutionary lens, exercise stops looking like a personal shortcoming and starts looking like a cultural invention we’re still learning how to live with, says Daniel Lieberman.
In this episode of The WHOOP Podcast, Michael Phelps joins Will Ahmed for a wide-ranging conversation on elite performance, athlete advocacy, and life beyond competition. Phelps shares his upbringing as a swimmer, reflecting on the changes he would make to influence the future of the sport. Phelps reflects on how global competition has evolved, why world records continue to fall, and the importance of preparation, recovery, and belief in achieving peak performance. The conversation also dives deeply into mental health, with Phelps sharing his personal journey with depression and anxiety, the value of presence and gratitude, and the tools he uses to navigate difficult days. Throughout, he highlights how data, sleep, recovery, and self-awareness, when used with WHOOP, can help anyone become a healthier, more resilient version of themselves.
A 4-year-old girl who drowned at a private club swimming pool in Southeast Michigan was with other children, but no adults, at the time, deputies reported.
The Irish mother of an Australian boy who swam for four hours through choppy waters off western Australia to get help for his family has said she is “amazed” at her son’s bravery and added she “knew he could do it”.
13-year-old Austin Appelbee made it across 4km of ocean to raise the alarm after his mother Joanne, who is originally from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, and two younger siblings were swept out to sea.
The family had gone kayaking and paddle-boarding on the water when the incident happened.
