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Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans.
All Australians aged 13-17 are encouraged to do 60 minutes of physical activity a day.
Summer time and time to cool off in a pool or lake? The statistics reveal that race complicates the issue: in the U.S., Black people drown at five times the rate of white people.
Community proposals for public swimming pools are popping up all over the country. But individuals need to work with governments to ensure these projects actually get off the ground.
Diving without oxygen tanks requires you to enact some very weird and very strange and not all that well understood physiological feats just to stay alive.
Summer may have come to an official end, but the plastics from your bathers might still be at the beach!
Cold water drowning kills many people every year. But can it also provide curative benefits? We asked an expert.
Swimming pools are much more than holes in the ground - they are often beautifully designed, as a new exhibition at the NGV shows. They also document Australia’s history of racism and sexism, and gradual relaxation of social mores.
A new study of captive dolphins has found that those engaging in synchronised swimming make more optimistic judgements about an unknown event.
The relationship between commercialised sport and junior sport has largely been left to the periphery of Australian sporting analyses.
Why don’t more of Australia’s urban residents swim in city rivers? History provides a guide to reclaiming these important urban assets as public spaces.
There are 16 contenders for the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award… But who is the best athlete?
Extreme feats of human endurance require extreme measures to stay alive
The burkini bans, now overturned by a French court, are selective and ridiculous. But controversy over women’s clothing, and competing cultural notions of appropriate garb, are nothing new.
The swimwear company has made the most of a messy situation.
Races at the international level are often decided by as little as 0.01 of a second.
Women’s football was introduced in the Olympics a staggering 96 years after the men’s event – and some sports still struggle with gender inequalities.
Rarely do we see such unscripted individual honesty on difficult topics such as doping, right in the middle of arguably the biggest international sporting stage.
The Australian swim team hoping for medal success in Rio have a lot to thank one of the earlier pioneers of sport science: Forbes Carlile.
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NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Human and Applied Physiology, University of Portsmouth
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