Now available from Speedo is a new range of high end FINA-compliant swimsuits dubbed LZR Racer Pro. Featuring exclusive highly durable variant of the LZR Pulse fabric and the same 3D pattern as the ELITE series, the low-profile, high-strength stitched seam construction combine to provide a highly durable competition suit with low-drag and an advanced [...]
Open water or ‘wild swimming’ is becoming increasingly popular. And it is easy to see why. The freedom of swimming in a lake, river or sea, admiring the beautiful scenery and the achievement of looking back and seeing exactly how far you have swum are hard to beat. However, it is very different from ploughing [...]
Goggleblog catches up with Kathy Watson, author of The Crossing, a book about the first person to swim The Channel, Captain Matthew Webb What inspired you to write a book about Captain Matthew Webb’s channel crossing? I was reading a book about swimming technique and there was a short introduction describing the development of swimming [...]
Short of standing in the street in your underwear there is nothing which makes us ladies feel quite as exposed as standing on the side of the swimming pool in a swimsuit. The thought of bumping into the yummy mummy from the school run while all your wobbly bits are barely concealed by a skimpy [...]
We know Speedo excels at producing trunks but now it has branched out into pants with a new collection of men’s underwear. Called UnderBody, the range claims to bring technologies Speedo has mastered giving Olympic athletes the edge (they don’t say though whether the pants will bring the Olympic edge to the bedroom!) UnderBody has [...]
Most swimmers of a certain age will remember the ‘Will Patrons Kindly Refrain From…’ poster which used to be on prominent display in every pool up and down the country. Encouraging us to avoid the less social habits of bombing, pushing, petting and smoking (!), it highlighted the more obvious no-nos which can spoil a [...]
Sharron Davies went back to the pool to help improve her skating style. But it wasn’t the Individual Medley that she practised to avoid being sent home, it was synchronised swimming. The 6ft tall Olympian and former Gladiators star came in for some harsh criticism a fortnight ago on the opening show of the series [...]
Contrary to what some people believe, swimming more efficiently – and faster – isn’t about thrashing up and down making as big a splash as possible. We’ve all seen those big muscly swimmers who kick their legs like it’s an outboard motor, only to tire after a few lengths (by which time they’ve normally annoyed [...]
Above, a woman bathes in the icy waters of a pond during the Russian Orthodox Church’s Epiphany celebrations near Kiev, January 19. Orthodox believers mark Epiphany on this day in line with the Julian Calendar by diving into ice holes, usually made in the form of a cross. The celebration marks the baptism of Jesus [...]
Swimming’s governing body Fina is to retest blood samples taken from swimmers at last year’s Rome world championships for evidence of doping. It is looking for traces of “plasticisers” – particles of plastic left over from blood bags. Fina took the decision at a meeting in Bangkok following the 391 blood samples taken from the [...]
