Elite swimmers have a certain type of stubbornness. Due to years of exposure to chlorine and early mornings, the majority…
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After a swimming career, there’s a certain silence. Not the familiar, almost reassuring silence of an empty pool at dawn,…
Standing on an all-white pool deck and feeling as though you don’t belong there without anyone saying anything is a…
Swimming scandals are particularly startling. The pool feels the most controlled and sterile of all Olympic sports, with timers, split-second…
You don’t become wealthy by swimming. A small number of swimmers have amassed the kind of wealth that rivals athletes…
Watching an Olympic swimmer touch the wall, set a world record then stealthily return to a life where paying the…
It takes a certain kind of bravery to give up the one thing you’ve always excelled at. Not because you…
A city like Ypsilanti, Michigan, has a quality that is simple to ignore. It’s not the kind of place that…
After filling a brand-new 12-foot garden pool with a regular garden hose for about three hours, the reality of 6,473…
When a community loses something it created with its own hands, it experiences a specific kind of grief. One of…