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Swimming

August 2024

  • Scent of chlorine and anxiety … Frankie Hart in How I Learned to Swim.

    How I Learned to Swim review – a dive into the deep waters of Black aquatic history

    Lessons at the pool expand to take in slavery’s legacy, Olympic achievement and Afrofuturism in an assured play by Somebody Jones
  • Carmen Francesch wearing a white sweatshirt - standing next to her bike with grass and lake behind

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I did my first Ironman at 61 – after my husband bet I couldn’t beat him

    Carmen Francesch has always been active, but it was only in 2015 that she started competing. It made her determined to push herself much further ...
  • Jo Bateman

    The first summer I …
    Sea swimming was my saviour. But the dumping of sewage changed everything

    Jo Bateman
    My daily dips were a game-changer for my mental health. Now I’m suing the water company that’s deprived me of them, says Jo Bateman

July 2024

  • man wearing "budgie smugglers" is seen laying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia

    Brief letters
    The glorious range of Australian slang

  • The Eiffel Tower is seen from the water of the Seine River, where a men’s triathlon event was rescheduled due to water quality.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Where France’s €1.6bn plan to clean up the Seine for the Olympics went wrong

  • A man wearing ‘budgie smugglers’ is seen lying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia.

    Take the plunge with ‘budgie smugglers’

  • Rich Pelley

    Brits have never taken to teeny tiny swimming briefs – but with celebrities getting on board, I took the plunge

    Rich Pelley

  • Paris mayor swims in Seine as river is cleaned up just in time for Olympics

  • With Paris Olympians set to dive into the Seine, could urban swimming come to Melbourne’s Yarra?

  • 59 summer problems solved – from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

  • Swanning around the Austrian lakes: a trip to Carinthia

  • After our first cold water swim our teeth chatter and hands ache – and I imagine the spirit of Mum not far away

    Nova Weetman

June 2024

  • A swimmer learns to float during a free swimming lesson organized by Black People Will Swim at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

    The Guardian picture essay
    A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

  • It was about 6C in the air and 12C in the water as red flares were fired at dawn to start the event

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    A record 3,000 people join nude Dark Mofo swim for winter solstice – video

  • Expeditioners plunged into the ice-cold water to an audience of seals

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    Antarctic researchers mark winter solstice with icy swim - video

  • Swimmers

    ‘Push through the painful bit’: record 3,000 people join nude Dark Mofo swim in Derwent

  • Life saving lessons: multicultural leaders urge education in ‘second language’ of water safety after latest drownings

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: After seven years of hiding my skin, I washed my makeup away in the sea

  • Shark or man? I am less afraid to swim in the ocean than run in a forest alone

    Eleanor Limprecht

  • ‘There’s a lot of bullying’: the shocking life of a teenage elite swimmer

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