Page 4 - Swimming

Sports Authority sanctions two-month training in Dubai for swimmers

Eyeing Olympic berths, Indian swimmers Virdhawal Khade, Srihari Nataraj and Kushagra Rawat will resume their training later this month in Dubai after a long hiatus, the Sports Authority of India

European swimming championships moved to May 2021 over coronavirus

In a statement, LEN president Paolo Barelli revealed that the championships would stay in Budapest and be held between May 10-23 after having been provisionally rescheduled for August this year

Covid-19: Fina postpones diving, artistic swimming Olympics qualifiers

Fina also announced that it would push off the Fina Diving World Series from March 27-29 in London, and the Fina Diving Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur originally set for June 5-7

Swimming against the tide

Michael Phelps showed why leaders should get comfortable with being uncomfortable

Ligandrol: What is it and how swimmer Shayna Jack had it in her system

While it has been studied as a treatment for cancer and other conditions where patients experience muscle weakness and wastage, it is banned for use by professional athletes

Drowning at midlife? Start swimming

The nonconformist in me decided that if every other forty-something woman was having a crisis, I was going to consciously decide not to have one

Learning to swim at 75. Why not?

If you like stories about courageous people with terrible handicaps who surmount insurmountable odds to attain a glorious triumph and then run around high-fiving everyone and shrieking "whoo" while stirring music plays in the background, this isn't the one for you. But I did learn to swim at age 75. That's worth something, no? Maybe a seal clapping ironically?Tragically, I never acquired this mundane skill at the proper age because after my parents went down on the Titanic, I couldn't bear being around water. That's a pathetic lie. I was just a little scaredy-cat, is all. I remember being delivered to the YMCA pool in downtown Schenectady, New York, for group lessons. Imagine my horror: A pack of bloodthirsty savages intent on mayhem (i.e. eight-year-old boys) shoving, yelling, kicking and splashing each other, while one frazzled adult tries in vain to maintain order and give instruction. Make that naked savages - no swimsuits, for some reason - rendering me even more vulnerable. And t