Editor’s note: This article is part of our “Origin Stories” series, focusing on the backstories of athletes and topics around the Summer Olympics. The world has seen two very public sides of Missy ...

Summer season calls for cooling down, and what better way to beat the heat than by taking a refreshing plunge into the pool? For many, summer and swimming pools feel like match made in heaven, whether ...

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Stand me at the top of a 10 meter diving platform and the swirl of vertigo will be enough to send me clambering nervously back down down the narrow steps. But once I get to the bottom and my legs are ...

To an outsider, swimmers seem to have a strange relationship with their sport. They simultaneously love and hate every aspect of it. They complain to anyone who will listen. But at the same time, they ...

Apart from cooling off in the sea on holiday or lounging at my local lido in summer, swimming never really interested me. However, I recently spent two weeks on the south coast of Sri Lanka, where I ...