In Michael Gunning’s life, none of this occurs where a four-year-old boy who is afraid of the water never enters…
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Alice Dearing mentioned a detail almost casually, but it stuck with me longer than almost anything else she said. When…
Watching an athlete who once beat a world record by milliseconds sit in a jungle and wait to devour a…
If you allow it to sink in, there’s a statistic that will stop you cold. 97% of Black adults in…
A professional athlete whose entire career depends on leg fitness installing a swimming pool they’ll almost certainly never do laps…
The idea that a swimming pool is more expensive than a real home seems almost ridiculous. When you look at…
As you scroll thru pictures of famous people’s homes, the pools cease to look like pools. When no one says…
Every Olympic swimming final has a moment, usually in the final fifteen meters, where the voice on your television is…
Seeing a fourteen-year-old climb onto an Olympic podium is truly unsettling. It’s more like the feeling you get when you…
A person who could afford any gym, any trainer, or any state-of-the-art recovery regimen would choose a swimming pool in…