Word: lapse
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Far below - for these are the cheaper seats - the bright-blue pool is packed with youngsters weaving around each other, diving and springing out like seals, practicing their strokes. It could be any public pool on a warm summer's evening, until you notice first that nobody is bumping into...
In the run-up to the Summer Olympics, swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps has been--to borrow a phrase from Visa, one of his sponsors--everywhere he wants to be. Since the 19-year-old became the first person to break five individual world records at a single meet last summer...
Want to swim laps? Not in these backyard ponds. Modeled on the appearance of island resorts, these tropical extravaganzas look more like small Caribbean nations than conventional pools. Many end up costing upwards of $100,000
DO YOU STILL SWIM? I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. I have a pool at my home that is 12.5 m long, so that if I swim eight laps, I can look at the time and say...
When a famous olympic athlete says her sport is fun, you wonder if she's a freak or just trying to convince herself that the rest of us would, if we could, choose early morning starts, repetitive weight-training, endless laps and mind-numbing technical drills as a way of...