http://dir.salon.com/topics/swimming/?source=rss&aim=swimming en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST By David Sirota Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/16/sirota/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/02/16/sirota/index.html?source=rss The Michael Phelps saga is yet another example of our addiction to feigned outrage. By Vincent Rossmeier Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/2009/07/29/equipment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/2009/07/29/equipment/index.html?source=rss Michael Phelps lost a major race for the first time in four years. Was his opponent's suit really to blame? By King Kaufman Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/olympics/2008/08/14/phelps/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/olympics/2008/08/14/phelps/index.html?source=rss The American phenom has been annoyingly omnipresent. That's too bad, because there are other things happening, and because he's not annoying. By Garrison Keillor Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/06/04/summer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/06/04/summer/index.html?source=rss Watching my kid in the water, I have to ask myself, what do I love as much? By Cary Tennis Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/03/25/swimming_pool/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/03/25/swimming_pool/index.html?source=rss My husband's cousin dives in without asking. By King Kaufman Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/olympics/2008/08/11/phelps/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/olympics/2008/08/11/phelps/index.html?source=rss The swimmer is gaining on the all-time gold-medal record. But he's really excited about a football jersey. By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/05/16/amanda_beard/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/05/16/amanda_beard/index.html?source=rss Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard plans to pose naked for Playboy. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/08/30/monday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/08/30/monday/index.html?source=rss 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! Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/08/25/wednesday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/08/25/wednesday/index.html?source=rss Olympics: Fast-forward. No, faster! The gymnastics exhibition is on! Plus: Don't mess with the insane judging, please. By Melinda Misuraca Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/04/15/thailand/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/04/15/thailand/index.html?source=rss Love and molecules converge in a hot Thai swim one evening. By Maurine Shores Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/08/18/crush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/08/18/crush/index.html?source=rss When you're a girl, a grown man's attention can make a woman out of you. By Jennifer New Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/07/02/bare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/07/02/bare/index.html?source=rss 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. By Courtney Weaver Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/1998/07/01/weav/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/1998/07/01/weav/index.html?source=rss Is your gym a den of inequity? By Grayson Hurst Daughters Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/01/29/29feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/01/29/29feature/index.html?source=rss A granddaughter reflects on the pain of getting old and missing the grandmother who didn't. By Gina Arnold Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1998/01/19/feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/1998/01/19/feature/index.html?source=rss A December trip to Japan rekindles Gina Arnold's life-shaping Olympic obsessions. By Debra S. Ollivier Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1997/09/05/french970905/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1997/09/05/french970905/index.html?source=rss 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.