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Latest news and updates on recreational and competitive swimming. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley, and freestyle and medley relay.

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Julian Weber celebrating with the German flag after success in the European Championships 2022

Where will the next European Championships be held?

Channel: Sport Sport August 21, 2022 By Harry Thomas-Humphreys

Start your wild swimming adventure with our beginner's guide to open water

Channel: Health Health August 20, 2022 By Vicki-Marie Cossar

The best rivers and lakes for wild swimming around the UK

Channel: Travel Travel August 22, 2022 By Sophie Laughton
Play Video ‘Bed hog’ dad tries to claim as many spots as he can

Now the Commonwealth Games are over, watch this lightning fast sun bed warrior

Channel: World World August 12, 2022 By Aaron Tinney
Dina Asher-Smith

What is the European Championships, how long does it last and how to watch on TV?

Channel: Sport Sport August 11, 2022 By Harry Thomas-Humphreys
Midsection Of Pregnant Woman Standing At Beach

Best maternity swimwear for summer 2022

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle August 10, 2022 By Annette Kellow

Ozzy Osbourne signs off Commonwealth Games in style in eclectic closing ceremony

Channel: Boxing Boxing August 8, 2022 By Callum McAvoy
paula craig swims english channel

Paralysed woman breaks record swimming Channel with complete spinal injury

Channel: UK UK August 8, 2022 By Jasper King
Ellie Simmonds

Strictly 2022: Who is Ellie Simmonds as she joins the line-up? Age and Paralympic medals

Channel: TV TV September 25, 2022 By Elizabeth Atkin
Play Video Bledar Avdia, left, brawls with Arjan Tase after the death of Jonada Avdia

Distraught dad brawls with cop who ‘killed’ his girl, 7, in speedboat horror

Channel: UK UK August 6, 2022 By Aaron Tinney

Take the plunge: WaterAid invites you to take part in 12 weeks of swimming for charity

Channel: Health Health August 1, 2022 By Tanyel Mustafa

'Break down barriers' preventing Black and Asian people learning to swim

Channel: UK UK July 26, 2022 By Kirsten Robertson
Portrait of three children splashing on inflatable mattress in garden swimming pool

Essential water safety tips to keep your kids safe this summer

Channel: Families Families July 22, 2022 By Georgina Rodgers
Waterworld, Stoke-on-Trent

What water parks are there in the UK?

Channel: Travel Travel July 18, 2022 By Elizabeth Atkin
openswim

Open water swimming at Canary Wharf opens for summer

Channel: Travel Travel July 17, 2022 By Charlotte Colombo
"I am honoured to be a part of this truly heart-breaking yet up- lifting story. So importantly this wonderful film gives us back hope." Celia Imrie, Olivier award winning actress, plays Gloria in Fifty-Four Days. "This is about so much more than swimming. The film touches upon different areas of race and mental health - particularly Black men's mental health - so we're proud to be part of the conversation around that." Michael Chapman, co-founder of Soul Cap. "This wonderful project aligns with our ethos at Phoenix, a cinema run by the people for the people, we are a registered charity, a non-profit community cinema who always supports locals, let it be your resident baker, brewer, winemaker, independent filmmaker or a food project preparing meals weekly for people in need. Our institution's main goal is to find a path to a prosperous independent future. So we are very proud and honoured to get behind a film like Fifty-Four Days, that's not only representational filmmaking at its very best, but also tackles a subject beautifully that we need to have more discussions about." Zalan Pall, Phoenix Cinema 'To see this project grow from planning to filming and now being a part of the first screening is really special. From conception, the project has advocated for finding hope in dark times and it has been a joy to bring parts of such a touching story to life for its launch' Emma MacNay (AQUA Studio)

Actor who lost friend to suicide takes up wild swimming to heal - and made a film about it

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle July 15, 2022 By Deborah Arthurs
Boy, 16, who drowned in quarry named

First picture of ‘promising’ boxer, 16, who drowned in quarry

Channel: UK UK July 12, 2022 By Joe Roberts

Coach jumps into pool to save swimmer's life after she fainted

Channel: World World June 23, 2022 By Kirsten Robertson
Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200 yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. - Thomas placed first in the event. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Why can't trans people compete in sport without getting backlash?

Channel: Sport Sport June 21, 2022 By Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir
Sharron Davies and Caitlyn Jenner

Caitlyn Jenner and Sharron Davies back transgender swimming ban

Channel: Sport Sport June 20, 2022 By Phil Haigh

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