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Inspired through adversity: Natalie Lambert
by Byline to Finish Line
posted August 24, 2010 at 11:44am

For the fourth straight year, Natalie Lambert had trained and plotted and planned to swim across Lake Ontario. On Monday morning, when the winds were high and the weather was bad, her crossing dreams were thwarted. Again. While the 17-year old from King...more

Sexual Abuse by USA Swimming Coaches is Systemic, Lawyer Says [Podcast]
by AnnGaff
posted August 18, 2010 at 3:33pm

In the podcast below, I interview Jon Little, Attorney at Law out of Indianapolis, who represents multiple female athletes who have been victims of sexual molestation by their swimming coaches. Little explains how USA Swimming is trying to pass off the bl...more

Review: Dara Torres ‘Age is Just a Number’
by Byline to Finish Line
posted August 18, 2010 at 9:48am

She became an American icon in the 2008 Olympics — well after she already was one of the best swimmers in U.S. history. But there is something we love about a comeback story, about people doing things which our collective conventional wisdom tells us i...more

Diana Nyad: Force of Nature at 60
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted August 17, 2010 at 1:00pm

When I was a few months from turning 60 (five years ago), I decided to train for and swim the Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life: A mile and a half distance from Long Point at the tip of Cape Cod to the beach at the Boat Slip. I got myself a new wet suit a...more

Swimming National Champs Re-Cap with Gold Medalist Rebecca Soni
by heather77
posted August 11, 2010 at 11:20am

The 2010 ConocoPhillips Swimming National Championships took place this last week from August 3-7 in Irvine, CA.  The always popular Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte showed some strong performances winning 3 events each with Nathan Adrian close behind ...more

Amanda Beard in the news
by Athletic Women Blog
posted August 4, 2010 at 2:41pm

Seven-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard returns to competitive swimming this week, and along with that naturally comes a return to celebrity life, in not entirely predictable ways, as it turns out. For instance, the New York Times recently ran a profile...more

Amanda Beard's new life
by After Atalanta
posted August 2, 2010 at 11:15am

The New York Times published an article this weekend about American swimmer Amanda Beard and the new stage of her life. She became a mother about a year ago and is working on a comeback in competitive swimming (she'll be competing in nationals this week; ...more

Lake Placid: My first 2.4-mile swim
by Byline to Finish Line
posted July 27, 2010 at 1:11pm

The freak out began as soon as we arrived at the beach. Mirror Lake was already hopping before 8 a.m. on Saturday with Ironman athletes getting in a last swim to keep fresh while others not racing the following the day were getting in some quality trainin...more

Marathon swimming: Surviving open water
by Byline to Finish Line
posted July 21, 2010 at 9:46am

There’s something alluring about open water swimming. Granted it was, and continues to be, the hardest part of triathlon for me. It’s scary. It’s hard. It’s lonely. And yet there are times out in the open water when swimming is peaceful, free an...more

Jenny Thompson: still a heroine
by Athletic Women Blog
posted July 9, 2010 at 4:09pm

I've always admired Jenny Thompson. It could probably go without saying that she is one of the greatest female athletes ever. But Thompson—a bright, independent-thinking woman—also helped cultivate a new archetype for the 21st-century athletic woman; ...more

Race Report: Welland Triathlon
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 28, 2010 at 9:44am

The smile just wouldn’t leave my face. For a brief moment I had flashes of Chrissie Wellington, the three-time defending Ironman Champion who always seems to be wearing an infectious smile during the most grueling parts of her races. Of course, I wasnâ...more

Water temperature, wetsuits and adventure
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 25, 2010 at 10:02am

The email prompted some furious googling. The official prerace report from the Welland Triathlon appeared in my inbox this morning and right at the top of the information was a note on water temperature. “We expect that once again wetsuits will be opti...more

Small craft advisory or The joys of open water swimming
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 17, 2010 at 8:32am

The tears had already started. So had the thought of dry heaving. And it was only 9:30 in the morning. This is what open water swimming can do to me. I was in panic mood en route to a complete nutty. Tonight would be my first open water swim since racin...more

What do USA Swimming and the Catholic Church have In common?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 16, 2010 at 1:14pm

Answer: A big disgusting sex scandal, that’s what.For several months USA Swimming has been embroiled in lawsuits and accusations related to their lax oversight of and response to numerous instances of male coach sexual misconduct with young female swimm...more

The last day of swim practice
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 10, 2010 at 11:10am

He looked over at me, gently shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Swim Master Greg and nothing left to say. It’s not that he gives up, it’s just that he doesn’t understand why I’m not moving faster through the water. This, believe it or n...more

Why milk?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 1, 2010 at 5:10pm

The benefits women—female athletes in particular—reap from strength training are well-established. A new study shows, however, that drinking milk after lifting weights enhances and accelerates them. Thus, as if it needed confirmation, we see now that...more

For the love of swimming
by Endurance Meg
posted May 27, 2010 at 11:34am

I knew going into triathlon that, of the three sports, the swim would be my weakest link. And I knew, after training in 2009 for my first Ironman, that I’d have some ground to make up on the bike and run because I wasn’t about to get out of the water ...more

It’s time to kick off summer swim team
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:53pm

Summer is right around the corner – literally – with thousands of pools marking the beginning of summer Memorial Day weekend and summer swim teams starting practice. Summer swim team has got to be one of my favorite activities of the year. Some of my ...more

Catastrophic swims
by Byline to Finish Line
posted May 20, 2010 at 8:49pm

In all honesty, I was hoping for an easy workout. It was my transition day. Technically, transition day is the last day of vacation, but in my world, it’s the bridge day — the day when I’m home from travels, starting to scroll through the work email...more

Vintage Sports: 1919 Australian Women Swim Team
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 20, 2010 at 3:14pm

Women and girls’ participation in sports has come a LONG way over the years. Check out this photo of the Australian Women’s Swim Team from 1919. While I am not sure of the actual athletes featured in the photo, it is quite possible that both Fanny ...more

Win a Copy of Dara Torres' New Book
by AnnGaff
posted May 18, 2010 at 9:28am

We have 5 copies of Dara Torres' new book Gold Medal Fitness to give away! TO WIN: There are THREE ways to enter and you can enter as MANY times as you want: Post a comment on this post (below). Send this tweet. Post on our Facebook Page tellin...more

Natalie Coughlin kicks off her weekend in Charlotte with Gold
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 16, 2010 at 4:41pm

USA Swimming’s Golden Girl, Natalie Coughlin, is back in the water after taking an extended break following the 2008 Olympics. Her extended break even included a stint on Dancing With The Stars, but its clear, Natalie’s real talent is in the water. S...more

Interview with Dara Torres
by AnnGaff
posted May 5, 2010 at 9:26pm

(Photo credit: Andrea Mead Cross)Dara Torres is busy promoting her new book Gold Medal Fitness, which was just released this week, but she took the time to answer our interview questions in honor of Mother's Day. Torres has won nine Olympic medals, four ...more

Swimming with Olympians at the Mutual of Omaha Breakout Swim Clinic
by Sports Girls Play
posted April 26, 2010 at 10:14am

< p> I Raced a Gold Medalist Today - What Did You Do? A few weeks ago we signed my daughter up for the Mutual of Omaha Breakout Swim Clinic that was being held at the pool she trains at. She was so excited to get to swim with Olympians Kate Ziegler ...more

I can no longer feel my arms
by Byline to Finish Line
posted April 13, 2010 at 6:54am

The big red plastic swim paddles were sitting for me at the edge of my lane, just waiting for me to finish my warm up so that I could slip their silicone strap over my wrist and attach them to my wrist. It had been a while since I was actually able to at...more
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