As he prepares to compete in the Arena Pro Swim meet in Indianapolis this weekend, James Guy has professed himself to be in a “great place” following his move to Bath. That comes off the back of his outing at BUCS a week or so ago which propelled him briefly to the helm of the early world rankings over 200m freestyle.
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There can be no easy way to call time on a career in a sport that has defined your life. But to call time on that career and shine a light on some of your darkest moments must come with added difficulties. But face up to those difficulties Michael Jamieson did as he ended his illustrious time in the sport of swimming while revealing the depression that had dogged him in the latter part of his career.
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Many swimmers will have at some point experienced the difficuties of training in public lanes. Beneath the Surface, a new short film from writer and director Alex Osman, tells the darkly comic tale of a man who remembers a series of increasingly odd encounters in his local pool
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To help highlight the risk to our oceans from discarded plastic, adidas has launched its SS17 Parley swim range made from up-cycled ocean plastic generated from used fishing nets and debris intercepted in coastal areas. This plastic is converted into a technical yarn fibre, Econyl®, a recycled material offering the same high quality and performance as the nylon usually found in wider swim apparel, but with the additional environmental benefits of using regenerated waste.
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