During the middle of the swimming season, a swimmer might work out 10,000 to 15,000 meters (8 to 10 miles) each day. As a major competition draws near, the swimmer will "taper" off the distances each ...

Pool swimming at the Olympic Games takes place inside a 50-meter-long swimming pool divided into eight lanes. Swimmers race each other at varying distances using one (or all, for medley events) of ...

Up until the 1996 Atlanta Games, swimmers typically wore suits that covered as little of their skin as necessary. Shaving one's entire body was the primary way to enhance speed through the water.

Maurine Kornfeld got into swimming because she enjoyed the water. She joined Masters Swimming in her 60s and is still going strong – four decades later. Kornfeld, now 101, broke the Masters World ...

Pool Swimming Block: The starting platform; the area from which a swimmer dives into the pool to begin a race. Cap: Latex or lycra head covering used during a race or workout to protect a swimmer's ...

Block: The starting platform; the area from which a swimmer dives into the pool to begin a race. Cap: Latex or lycra head covering used during a race or workout to protect a swimmer's hair from the ...