We Never Stop
We Never Stop
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 […]
You may not have seen the men’s 10,000-meter race at the Olympics but if you had you would have witnessed one of the more incredible physical achievements of these Games or any Olympics of all time. In these long races, which are diabolical 6.2 mile sprints, the fastest men are almost always from Kenya and […]
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 […]
One: What if Charles Hartley becomes a full-time SwimSwam correspondent instead of a once-every-four-years Johnny Come Hartley parachuting in to opine all about swimming only to find out others would rather he not be elevated to that position? What if USA Swimming has a problem with the decision? Two: What if the day before the […]
There was a time when I was Mr. America winning the outstanding player trophies for my sixth-grade football, basketball, and baseball teams – we call that a sweep. I once danced for 12 hours straight, doing mostly the bump, and sweated up four shirts, and at another time ate 32 pancakes, drove from Kansas to […]
People are getting rejected, turned away, and maligned all around America these days and it’s an unsettling trend that needs to be confronted. Caitlin Clark got left off the U.S. Olympics hoops team. Joey Chestnut is being blocked from participating in this summer’s hot dog eating contest stuffed down our throats by Nathan’s Hot Dogs. […]
