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5 Reasons Why You Should Try Competitive Swimming
You already love swimming, so you don’t need to be reminded about the huge benefits of the water sport. However, if you’re a keen swimmer and ar...
How To Smash Your First Time In The Fast Lane
Starting out with lane swimming is intimidating to say the least, but when you’re ready to start training in the faster pace lanes the intensi...
How To Prepare For Your First Swimming Race
You’ve committed to the early mornings. The late nights. Missed out on social events and have pushed your body further than before. Now it’s just a...
Life After the Rio Paralympics
Life After the Rio 2016 Paralympics by Paralympian Claire Cashmore
When I touched the wall in my final race at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, I k...
Greatest Moments in the Paralympics
With the Rio Paralympics now in full swing, let's take a look at some of the greatest moments in recent Paralympic history...
Rim Ju Song
Rim ...
Paralympic Swimming Classifications
To ensure that the competition in the Paralympic games are fair, the events are categorised into various classifications. We're going to break th...
Greatest Moments in Olympic Swimming
Swimming is one of the main staples of the Olympic Games, having started in 1896 it has since become one of the most popular sporting events. To ...
Road to Rio Diary: Claire Cashmore Paralympic Swimming Medallist
With less than 50 days to go before the Rio games, I thought I would give you a quick update. It feels like only yesterday I looked at the countdow...
Which Swimming Events Are In The Olympics?
Swimming may not carry the same sporting glamour as other Olympic events, yet there's no denying that it can be a draw for both live spectators and...
Who Invented Swimming as a Sport?
Swimming as a motor skill has always been with the human race in the same way that a dog or a mouse can swim as an instinctive, natural, form of mo...
Who Won The Swimming Olympics 2012
Swimming has been an important and increasingly integral part of the Olympic Games since the first swimming events in the 1896 Olympics. Each succe...
Who's Swimming In The Olympics 2016?
With less than 100 days until the 2016 Olympic Games begin in Rio, the British Olympic Association has named the 26 swimmers that will represent Te...