BBC highlights from the first day of the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield, including Rebecca Adlington’s victory in the women’s 200m freestyle. CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO PLAY VIDEO
Just last week she was captaining her Florida University team to victory in the American collegiate championships. This week Gemma Spofforth is setting the pace at the British National Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Swimming the fourth fastest time in the world this year, she cruised into the semi-finals of the 100m backstroke at the British [...]
Children’s swimming coach Emily Morris has become the first British woman to swim New Zealand’s notorious Cook Strait – a shark-infested, jellyfish ridden stretch of water connecting the country’s North and South islands. The 27 year old, who works as a swimming coach at the Hampton Pool, had to brave shoals of jellyfish as she [...]
Want to buy a gorgeous 1937 art deco swimming pool? Well the Bon Accord Baths is up for grabs. Despite a major campaign to save it, the pool was closed by Aberdeen City Council in 2008 and property consultants Ryden are now handling the sale of the B-listed building. Suggestions include a concert venue, gallery [...]
Michael Phelps talks about the benefits of swimming, about how it uses every muscle in the body, but is much lower risk than other sports. “It’s a total body workout and not very taxing on the body,” he says. He talks about his friends who are just getting into the sport and are beginning to [...]
To celebrate the British Gas Swimming Championships 2010, the biggest domestic swimming event of the year, Swimming.org is offering you the chance to question Michael Scott, National Performance Director of British Swimming. Want to know how we’re training the country’s swimmers or how Great Britain is performing in the pool? Michael will be on hand [...]
An arts manager is spending March swimming 100 miles – the distance between her childhood home of Jamaica and the devastated island of Haiti. Jeanette Bain-Burnett has been swimming morning, noon and night in a bid to raise £3,000 for Unicef’s earthquake appeal. The 31-year-old director of the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora [...]
Tickets are now on sale for the British Gas Swimming Championships in Sheffield. One of the most important 50m events in the swimming calendar, The Championships will take place over 6 days, from Monday 29th March to Saturday 3rd April 2010 at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield. Make sure your place is reserved to [...]
Just five weeks to go until the Swimathon, the UK’s biggest and best swimming-based charity event, and Goggleblog has got in on the action. Team Goggleblog is swimming 5Km in the Oasis outdoor pool in London’s Covent Garden. And to help us we’ve enlisted the support of two six year olds, Archie Price and Ella [...]
Speedo has introduced a new range of swimwear for women. Shapeline is the result of a three year project during which Speedo Aqualab technologists scanned the body shapes of 5,400 real women. The swimwear manufacturer claims the measurements many manufacturers use as the basis of women’s sizes are completely inaccurate. Since the 1950s when the [...]
