Downstream
of sports supplements, energy gels and bars, and numerous books and articles on diet. Swimming may no longer ...
Shaw Method instructor Phil Tibenham, who loves to swim near Grafton Lock, are our new professors of swimming, ...
become a business, but balance this with the fact many people swim to raise money. And this is the secon ...
others, post intended swims, join in events and share experiences and, unlike most social media users, people ...
3,000 people drowned every year in England and Wales. In 2012, twenty-six people died while swimming in the ...
Thames and Annie Luker dived from bridges, most of those working on the river didn’t know how to swim, whe ...
by the wayside. In the 1870s it was seen as a key life skill for men and boys, and then eventually for everyon ...
of accidental death (along with fire and smoke) among children under the age of fifteen in England, after tr ...
whether indoors or outside. By the 1920s women bathers no longer had to cover up at the seaside but could wear the sort of one- ...
by Annette Kellerman in 1907 when she was arrested on an American beach for indecency. ...
A school swimming certificate from 1931. Today a third of children can’t swim 25 metres by the time they leave primary school. A ...
many look forward to the day when open-water swimming has its own governing body, just like British Triathlon ...
has led some to question the direction the sport is taking and whether an organisation needs to oversee the deve ...
development of clubs is essential to the sustainability of the sport. He launched H2Open after ‘I’d been doing ...
you want a controlled, managed environment and some recognition at the end like a medal. There is a fear abo ...
such as the heavy flooding in late 2013 and early 2014 when England and Wales suffered the wettest winter ...
football pitch in Windsor, two people used a gondola to travel through a flooded village square in Berkshire ...
pollution or legislation. Of the three swims I’ve done, the upper Thames, the Millwall Dock and the Thames Es ...
once bathed before breakfast and where Jerome K. Jerome wrote parts of Three Men in a Boat. As long as the ...
only just begun; it has always been, and always will be, a swimmer’s friend. ...
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