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19 Sep 2013:Sally Goble: It's a mystery why so many people are resistant to joining a swimming club. Some of my best friends are the people I swim with – who know me inside out after countless shared lengths
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17 Sep 2013: Jenny Landreth: When I recently had to empty my swimming bag, I found enough kit in there to equip a whole team. From goggles (two pairs) to a piece of old bathmat for standing on, here's what it contained
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16 Sep 2013:
Daan Verhoeven: Most people panic at the thought of going for minutes without oxygen – but adherents of this fascinating extreme sport discover a world of calm in the stillness underwater
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12 Sep 2013: Lucy Fry: Who better to ask for a few pointers about wild swimming than Britain's very own Olympic hopeful? Here's what he had to say
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11 Sep 2013:
The swimmer claimed the right to set the ground rules for future marathons from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage
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Gallery (20 pictures),
11 Sep 2013:
Built to a 1/100th scale, these papercut models by Japanese artist and designer Naoki Terada are wonderfully minimal and delicate representations of sport.
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9 Sep 2013:
Johanna Derry: Next up in our series is Steven Shaw's approach, which uses Alexander technique principles to put you at ease with the water
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8 Sep 2013:
Long-distance swimmers have been debating online whether Nyad got a boost from the boat that was accompanying her
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7 Sep 2013:
Carole Cadwalladr: The 64-year-old's record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida was a triumph of the human spirit
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7 Sep 2013: Adlington said British swimmers are not competitive on the world stage because there is "no one to challenge" them at home
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6 Sep 2013:
Lucy Fry: Olympic middle-distance swimmers know better than most how dull it can be to troll up and down the training pool for hours on end. What can we do to spice things up?
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5 Sep 2013:
Originally published in the Guardian on 5 September 1972: American swimmer Mark Spitz makes sporting history, winning seven golds - and breaking seven world records - at the Olympic Games in West Germany
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3 Sep 2013:
American woman says she intends to raise money for charity with further endurance swims – in swimming pools
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3 Sep 2013: Jenny Landreth: When London's biggest public swiming event was moved to Millwall Dock, I made that drone kids make when they're pretend crying. But the reality was far less distressing than I'd feared
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Gallery (14 pictures),
2 Sep 2013:
The US endurance athlete succeeds in her fifth attempt at the dangerous crossing from Havana to the Florida Keys without a protective shark cage
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