Sibusiso Mogale is a former Paralympian swimmer who once traveled the world to compete at swimming events. Mogale has Phocomelia, a rare condition that causes underdeveloped limbs. Now he has embarked on a new chapter in his life, and found comfort and freedom on two pieces of land he farms on in Kabokweni, Mpumalanga.
Kate Grey, Paralympic Swimmer answers the question ‘What does sport mean to you’ as part of our Summer of Sport campaign. Let us know what sport means to you by entering our competition.
We all have a relationship with the water… Swim Ireland exists to nurture that and is excited to now launch a new membership and swimming community at meandthewater.ie.
With racing hopefully starting around the world, we have noticed that many of you are hard in training, and have been submitting a ton of questions around that! If you have any questions you can put #gtncoachescorner on any of our videos and we will try to answer as many as we can!
Real talk about this do-or-die time in my pro triathlon career. Or skip the philosophizing and watch me freeze my face off swimming at the lake
Where do we start with the British Swimming legend, Adam Peaty?
He is literally redefining the breaststroke technique and because of this, his 100m world record 56.88, is nearly 2 seconds faster than any other breaststroke swimmer in the world!
We’ve spoken to coaches about Adam Peaty’s training routine and schedule and the London Roar captain is one of the hardest workers on the planet. If there are any younger swimmers wanting Adam Peaty’s motivation, this is the video for you!
With his new and improved starts and turns, by the time the 2020 Tokyo Olympics comes round, Adam Peaty swimming the 100m breaststroke looks good to break the world record even further. How close can he get to the 55-second mark?!
A Myanmar swimmer will skip the Tokyo Olympics in protest against the coup perpetrated by his country’s military, saying he will not represent his nation when hundreds of protesters have been killed by authorities.
Win Htet Oo, a 26-year-old freestyle swimmer, said in a statement posted on his Facebook page on April 10 that he will not participate in the Tokyo Games at a time when the military junta continues its violent crackdown that has killed unarmed civilians, including some athletes.
“I shall not march in the parade of nations under a flag steeped in my people’s blood,” the Myanmar swimmer said in the statement.
He noted the International Olympic Committee communicated to him privately that the Myanmar Olympic Committee plans to send a team to the Tokyo Games.
But he said, “It is my hope that the IOC refuses to acknowledge the MOC as the rightful organization responsible for the Olympic Movement in Myanmar,” adding the MOC is a puppet organization for the military regime.
Read Kyodo News and The Jakarta Post
John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame announced Monday. He was 78.
Konrads was born in Latvia in 1942 and moved to Australia with his parents, his two sisters, and a grandmother in 1949.
“As a swimming sensation in the 1950s and 60s, John Konrads dominated the world swimming scene, breaking every freestyle world record between 200 meters and 1,500 meters by the time he was 15,” Sport Australia Hall of Fame chairman John Bertrand said in a statement. “His career tally of 26 individual world records is an incredible record.”
Read ESPN
South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker is a leading medal contender in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events at Tokyo 2021 and hopes she can end the rainbow nation’s 21 years wait for a medal in the women’s swimming events at the Summer Games. The 23-year-old African champion chatted to CGTN’s Sias du Plessis.
