Not everyone is a whopping 6ft 6 inches tall like 8 time world record holder Mark Foster, but they do say size isn’t everything. A lot of distance can be covered without taking too much energy from ...
You could call it a stroke of swimming genius. U.S. Olympian Katie Ledecky has galloped away with two more gold medals in the 800 meter and 1,500 meter women’s freestyle swimming events at the 2024 ...
Freestyle is a complicated stroke because it’s the resting stroke that everybody seems to do differently. Some people look like they’re flailing with pizzaz, some people look so elegant that there is ...
The specialized combat swimmer stroke (CSS), also known as the combat sidestroke, is just a modified version of the elementary sidestroke. The modified version actually mixes in a few changes that ...
Not one, not two, and not just three medals, but eight for the most decorated Filipino athlete in this year’s Southeast Asian Games, Kayla Sanchez.
Swimming has been part of the Olympics since the inaugural edition of the Summer Games in 1896. Over the years, the sport has become quite popular with the best swimmers across the world vying for an ...
The zipper drill is a swimming technique drill that requires an athlete to slide the thumb of their recovering arm against the side of their body from hip to armpit. It encourages an overly high elbow ...
When taking swim tests for Navy Special Warfare or special operations, you must use underwater recovery strokes. Acceptable strokes for the entrance exam are the elementary sidestroke, the ...
Australian Paralympic swimmer Ahmed Kelly thought his quest for redemption from the Tokyo Games was over when he was briefly disqualified in the 150m medley SM3 at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris ...
Not everyone is a whopping 6ft 6 inches tall like 8 time world record holder Mark Foster, but they do say size isn’t everything. A lot of distance can be covered without taking too much energy from ...