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…
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…
Swimwear brands that pay celebrities to appear in campaign photos are not the same as swimwear brands that celebrities actually…