Millions of people who watched the Rio 2016 Paralympics were moved by a picture, or rather, a memory of one.…
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In Michael Gunning’s life, none of this occurs where a four-year-old boy who is afraid of the water never enters…
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…
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…
Swimwear brands that pay celebrities to appear in campaign photos are not the same as swimwear brands that celebrities actually…
Competitive swimming has an almost cruel quality. When the clock stops, there is nowhere to hide because the lanes don’t…
The idea of a sibling rivalry that reaches the Olympic podium seems almost ridiculous. The majority of brothers and sisters…