Swimming

America's narcotic of choice America's narcotic of choice

The Michael Phelps saga is yet another example of our addiction to feigned outrage.
  • Phelps: Eight is enough?

    The swimmer is gaining on the all-time gold-medal record. But he's really excited about a football jersey.
  • Like my breast stroke? What about my breasts?

    Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard plans to pose naked for Playboy.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Olympics: And so it ends. Now we begin filing the memories: Let's see, Phelps, hoops, drugs, two Hamms, empty seats and a nutcase at the marathon. Plus: Dee-fense!
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Olympics: Fast-forward. No, faster! The gymnastics exhibition is on! Plus: Don't mess with the insane judging, please.
  • Blinded by science

    Love and molecules converge in a hot Thai swim one evening.
  • First crush

    When you're a girl, a grown man's attention can make a woman out of you.
  • Bare, naked ladies

    There's not much room to commune with your own nudity, or anyone else's, in a swimming-pool locker room full of wary onlookers.
  • 24-hour Naughty-house

    Is your gym a den of inequity?
  • Pool of Memories

    A granddaughter reflects on the pain of getting old and missing the grandmother who didn't.
  • Olympics bound

    A December trip to Japan rekindles Gina Arnold's life-shaping Olympic obsessions.
  • vive la kiddie pool

    In this first of an occasional series of dispatches by an expatriate mom, the author belly-flops into a cultural gulf at her Parisian swimming pool.

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