There was a time when every school kid, it seems, not only learned to swim, but also carried out basic life saving. Talk to any child brought up in the 1960s and 1970s and they’ll probably tell you funny tales of how they blew up their pyjama bottoms to make a float, trod water for [...]
Duncan Goodhew became a household name when he won Olympic Gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, swimming 100m breaststroke. Famous for his bald head (he lost his hair when he fell out of a tree aged 10), he is the President of Swimathon, a charity that has raised over £38 million. Swimathon 2013 takes place [...]
Yesterday when it was announced that her coach Bill Furniss is to take up the head coach role at British Swimming I had hoped that maybe, just maybe, Adlington would change her mind about retiring from the sport she loves. Sadly it was not to be. Years and years of getting up at 5am to [...]
Maybe it was seeing Tom Daley and a few B-list celebrities without many clothes on (I’m thinking the Sugababes girl and Benidorm actor here, rather than Helen Lederer or Omid Djalili)? Or maybe it was the fact that there really wasn’t much else on telly that night and it was a cold evening. Whatever, it [...]
If I worked at Speedo at their Pentland HQ in Finchley I swear I would never be out of the pool. Though I normally swim outdoors up the road at David Lloyd in North Finchley, there is something really quite nice about this indoor pool. Maybe it’s the lack of loads of other people swimming [...]
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James O’Shea lost his legs in a drunken accident at Milton Keynes train station New Year’s Eve 1998, aged 20. After meeting former swimming champion Mark Foster, he decided to embark on a career as a Paralympic swimmer. He makes his Paralympic debut Wednesday September 5th in SB5 100m breaststroke and is hotly tipped to [...]
Not long to go until the 2012 London Paralympics and we’re looking forward to seeing James O’Shea competing in the SB5 category in the 100m breaststroke. James lost his legs in a horrific teenage accident but his potential as a Paralympic swimmer was spotted by former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster while they were filming Dancing [...]
Next time you see one of our Olympic swimmers competing spare a thought for their racing regime. Not only do they put hours and hours of practice in the pool each week, they also have to jam themselves into the tightest swimming costumes and swimming trunks around – known in the business appropriately enough as [...]
Haven’t got tickets to the Olympics? Kids driving you mad during the holidays? Then you might want to check out this year’s FREE Big Summer Splash. Built by Total Swimming for Decathlon UK in partnership with Speedo, The Big Summer Splash sees the Decathlon store in Surrey Quays in London’s Docklands transform its car park [...]
