We Never Stop
We Never Stop
Don’t you feel sorry for American Olympic swimmer Katie Grimes? What a dreadful situation she found herself swimming for over two hours and more than six miles in disgusting sewage water in the Seine River. That was putrid enough. But the currents were wicked tough to navigate. She told USA Today after fighting awful conditions: […]
Feels like the night after the senior prom. The dancing went on non-stop for hours, the friendships more solid and real than they had ever been before. Then it ended. We woke up. Graduation was the next week. A drive off to college followed soon thereafter. And we were left there wishing it could all […]
For countless decades Americans have tended to dominate many Olympic swimming events. Gold Medals – a bunch of them – have been the result. But not so much at these Paris Olympics. The Australian women are outclassing the Americans taking Gold in the 400-meter freestyle, 4 by 100-meter free relay, and 100- and 200-meter backstroke. […]
A young man with a broken heart. That’s what I saw. Caeleb Dressel, crying so much after not winning a medal in the 100-meter butterfly and 50-meter freestyle – two of the events in which he won Gold in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. It wasn’t comfortable watching him weep – an incredibly physically fit athlete […]
Theories are flying around the world about why more swimming world records and personal best times aren’t being broken during this week’s Paris Olympics. One reason, according to the experts, is the pool isn’t as deep as typical Olympic pools. Shallower pools create more waves and therefore resistance that slow swimmers. Physics concept or maybe […]
