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).
“I actually retired for a few hours on a given day before the SNAG,” he revealed in an interview with The Straits Times on Saturday (April 23) afternoon.
Read The Straits Times
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The Ultimate Guide to Icelandic Swim/Bathing Culture | All Things Iceland
Even though Iceland is known for its swim culture around the world, the tradition of gathering at communal swimming pools is fairly recent in the country’s history. In addition to sharing the Dos and Don’ts at an Icelandic swimming pool, I also share some fascinating history about how the swim/bathing culture came to be in Iceland.
The Icelandic Bathing Culture Exhibit is located at the Icelandic Design Museum (Hönnunarsafn). There is a cost to enter the exhibit and the link is below to see the description:
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Learning to Swim to Brave the Deadly Rio Grande | Reuters
Nicaraguans planning to migrate to the United States are taking swim lessons in anticipation of the dangerous crossing of the Rio Grande River at the U.S. border.
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Kaitlyn Weatherby Heading to Brazil for the Deaflympics | WNEP
A room in Passan Hall at Misericordia University was packed with graduate physical therapy students on Tuesday for a sendoff for one of their own.
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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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Search For Missing Swimmer Underway In Sacramento River | CBS Sacramento
The search for a missing swimmer who went missing on the Sacramento River is underway.
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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 Credlin.
The Olympic gold medallist agreed there should be a section for trans athletes to compete as an effort to include them into the sport as well as being “fair to every other athlete”.
“The government and the sporting organisations need to have something in place … so everyone can join our sport,” she said.
“If that means that we need a transgender section then we have that, we have that inclusion for them to join the sport and we have it so it’s fair for every other athlete too.
“Because there’s nothing worse than years and years of training and it just being thrown away because someone was biologically fitter, stronger (and) faster than you.”
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Hundreds of Swimming Teachers Urgently Needed After Pandemic | 9 News Australia
Hundreds of swimming teachers are urgently needed after the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to lessons and drove employees away. This new recruitment drive is aiming to save children’s lives.
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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 more. “The building blocks of a waterman is humility,” says surfer Laird Hamilton. “As a student of the ocean that would’ve made him pretty resilient to failure.”