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GRACE WRIGHT-ARORA, ON WATER (IN)JUSTICE AND THE RIVER AVON

Why we swim can often be political, and swimmer Grace Wright-Arora has completed research on pollution, activism and alternative water...

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Aug 21 min read

SWIMMABLE CITIES SUMMIT, ROTTERDAM

Swimming in the city

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Jul 171 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - TOM KEARNEY, ON TRANSFORMATION AND SWIMMING AT HAMPSTEAD HEATH MEN'S POND

Tom Kearney on the far left - Tom is a Hampstead resident of over a quarter of a century and year-round swimmer at the nearby Ponds. He...

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Jan 184 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – STANLEY ULIJASZEK AND LONDON OPEN WATER SWIMMING

Stanley Ulijaszek at the Hampstead Men's Pond Listen to the podcast This podcast is about open water swimming in London – given how urban...

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Dec 30, 20241 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – SARAH GILES, ON OXFORD, SWIMMING AND INEQUALITY

Listen here Sarah Giles lives and swims in open water in Oxford. She is Programme Development Manager at SportExcel UK, a sports...

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Dec 23, 20241 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – THE SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB AND THE INTERNATIONAL MARATHON SWIMMING HALL OF FAME

In May 2022, the Serpentine Swimming Club was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame – IMSHOF in short. This is a...

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Mar 10, 20232 min read

COPENHAGEN SWIMMING AND TOGS FOR A PANDEMIC RECYCLED

It somehow feels right to leave my stripy togs in Copenhagen to be recycled. On the last day here, after nearly three years away, I put...

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Apr 18, 20225 min read

SWIMMINGPOD - DYLAN FRIEDMANN AND A YEAR OF SWIMMING AND DIPPING DAILY IN LAKE ONTARIO, CANADA

If you want to find Dylan Friedmann on a cold, cold, Toronto winter’s morning, it’s quite easy in some ways. First get up before dawn,...

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Feb 14, 20223 min read

CHRISTMAS SWIMMING AND RITUAL – ON A TALK BY AUTHOR MADELEINE BUNTING

I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three swimmers go swimming by On Christmas Day in the...

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Dec 24, 20216 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – BERLIN SWIMMING SPREE - CAITLIN KRAEMER AND SWIMMING IN THE CITY

Berlin is many cities at once, all in progress. Caitlin Kraemer knows many of these cities, but the one she is interested in from an...

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Jun 4, 20215 min read

VISIONS – ANETTE FRISCH, AKA BAHNEN_ZIEHEN, DUSSELDORF

The Phrase of Corona-Year 2020 is probably ‘You’re muted’. This is how Anette Frisch’s images of outdoor pools in Germany speak to me...

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Mar 12, 20213 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – ALEX FOSTER AND AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF A SWIMMING CLUB

Alex Foster spent the winter months of 2019-2020 learning about winter swimming and cold water immersion at the Serpentine Swimming Club,...

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Feb 26, 20214 min read

SWIMMINGPOD – SWIMMING COPENHAGEN-STYLE, WITH ANNE KATRINE KLEBERG HANSEN

I dreamed of swimming last night – in Copenhagen, a place denied to me in this year of coronavirus. I have been coming to Copenhagen...

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Dec 9, 20208 min read

65@65 SWIM #61 - KEW BRIDGE TO HAMMERSMITH, THE RIVER THAMES IN LONDON

That’s life. C’est la vie. So das ist das leben. It amounts to the same thing, which Scottish poet Robert Burns summarised as “the best...

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Sep 3, 20208 min read

65@65 SWIM #60 - HAMPTON COURT, THE RIVER THAMES

“As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise” – this Kinks song from my early adolescence, was running through my head. David...

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Sep 1, 20205 min read

65@65 SWIM #58 - ROYAL VICTORIA DOCKS, LONDON

This is the closest I will get to swimming in Paris this year –standing next to Seurat’s painting ‘The Bathers as Asnieres’. There are...

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Aug 22, 20205 min read

65@65 LOCK-DOWN SWIM – MY DEAR PORT MEADOW

If I were writing a letter to my beloved outdoor swimming, it might start ‘My dear Port Meadow…’. It would be written long-hand, with...

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Apr 22, 20204 min read