Gadget guru Jason Bradbury has officially been announced as the next celebrity to join Sir Richard Branson and Ronan Keating in The Swim! Bradbury is currently the host of Five’s The Gadget Show, and more recently the BBC1 family game show, Don’t Scare the Hare. He will join the team relaying across the treacherous Irish [...]
By Andrea Petrou A little while ago I decided it was time to rid myself of the growing love handles (the joys of working from home) and hit the local pool. Dressed in my no nonsense Speedo swimming cozzie and mentally congratulating myself at getting halfway through my first length I was rudely interrupted by [...]
Want to swim The Irish Channel and raise £1 million for Cancer Research UK? Sir Richard Branson and Ronan Keating are captaining a team of ten people including celebrities and members of the public to make the 56 mile swim across Jellyfish infested waters from Holyhead to Dublin. To be in with a chance of [...]
I’ve always believed that sport is as much about improving your mental state as well as physical state. While some people like to jog or play football to clear their head, I like to swim. I’ve always loved to swim – it was the one sport that I found completely natural from day one – [...]
Three of Britain’s biggest Olympic hopefuls have shown their white bits for this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine’s annual Naked Centrefolds Special. Commonwealth medallists James Goddard, Ross Davenport and Grant Turner posed for the pictures to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer for Everyman, the UK’s leading male cancer campaign, in the lead up to June’s [...]
Last week I went to Barnet Copthall Leisure Centre for a swim while my 8 year old trained with the Dolphins swimming club. After I finished my swim I went to watch him in the training pool, while he finished off his butterfly session. After ten minutes of watching him plough up and down, I [...]
Ian Thorpe promises to confound the sceptics who claim he is only coming out of retirement for the money. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, the five-times Olympic gold medallist said he can become a much faster swimmer than ever before. After retiring in 2006, 28 year old Thorpe announced his comeback last month, admitting [...]
Team Goggleblog – comprising Chris, Wendy and eight year old Archie Price – are taking part in the world’s biggest fundraising swim on April 8 and 10. We’ll be heading to Finchley Lido for two Swimathons: a 2.5Km ‘warm up’ on the Friday and a 5Km swim on the Sunday. We’re hoping to raise £1000 [...]
Good news for swimming fans who have had to be content with watching swimming highlights online recently. The BBC has a won a four year deal which will allow fans to follow the sport on terrestrial TV in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics and the Commonwealth Games in 2014. According to British Swimming, the [...]
Day five of the British Gas Swimming Championships in Manchester saw double Commonwealth champion James Goddard hold off a determined challenge from Joe Roebuck to defend his 200m Individual Medley crown. See 15 minute show from Day 5 of the British Gas Swimming Champsionships in Manchester below. Via Swimming.org Interview with Keri-anne Payne after smashing [...]
