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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...
But despite that initial antipathy, Cromwell didn’t walk away. He made the daily treks across the Charles from the Yard, swam the countless pre-season laps and slowly grew accustomed to the grind he’d been so hard pressed to subject himself to upon his...