Tag: swimming

A new episode of the show isn't a bad way to kick off a brand new trip around the sun, and it's one that’s a lot warmer than the way some people start the year: those Polar Bear swims in ice cold water.

If you’re near Moses Lake, Washington in the next couple days, you can try an iconic fair food: the Spaceburger.

Today in 1987, American swimmer Lynne Cox took to the freezing waters of the Bering Strait in a call for peace between the world’s superpowers.

Today in 1926, American Gertrude Ederle swam from France to England, a record-setting crossing of the English Channel she made in stormy weather!

It's National Swimming Pool Day, so here’s a story of a guy who had to get into the pool: Dick Roth, who won an Olympic gold medal while trying to fend off appendicitis.

The benchmark for Paralympic gold: 55 medals by a single athlete, swimmer Trischa Zorn.

Sometimes the Olympic athletes who don’t win are the ones who make big impressions. Eric Moussambani was a hit at the 2000 Summer Games despite finishing well behind the rest of the competitors in his event.

A team of German developers may have just made the pool safer, by developing a water-based lifeguard robot that can rescue swimmers in distress.

Armenian finswimming champion Shavarsh Karapetyan saved at least 20 passengers trapped in a trolleybus that had gone into a lake. Has anybody done a biopic about this guy yet?

 A long cold winter is behind us - unfortunately potholes are underneath us.