2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1763+ words) As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me. Instantly, I feel sick, and I remember why I don't go swimming. I'm getting ready for my first swimming lesson in over 10 years, trying to convince myself it…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (498+ words) A student has run the length of the UK for a brain tumour charity after losing his father to one when he was a child. Rafe Colman-Chadwick, 20, raised more than £10,000 for Brain Tumour Research by running 872 miles (1,403km) from John O'Groats…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (622+ words) Olympic champion Hannah Scott says she will arrive at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam on the back of her "most successful winter of training so far". The Coleraine sculler says her experience to date in the sport is becoming…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (275+ words) Penguins at a zoo are making a splash with their new wave machine after a fundraising campaign by local children. The feature at Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, Hampshire, otherwise known as a flow cannon, was powered up on Saturday morning....

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (351+ words) Fundraisers have swum more than 1,000 lengths to help secure some of the money to reopen an open-air swimming pool which shut three years ago. County Durham's only heated lido, at Stanhope in Weardale, closed in 2023 after a major electrical failure…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (784+ words) Naomi Herron had not been on a beach since she was a child. She has cerebral palsy which meant it was difficult for her the access the beach as she grew up. Naomi only returned five years ago after campaigning…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (836+ words) Five years on, the Tokyo Olympic Games remain a distant blur for Team USA history-maker Connor Fields. Fields arrived in Tokyo as the defending BMX Racing champion, with the sport’s biggest prize already in his pocket. Four years earlier in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (718+ words) For Connor Fields, standing on the Olympic podium in Rio was about far more than the gold medal around his neck. After years of training, sacrifice, and chasing a dream that had fallen short in London four years earlier, he…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (107+ words) Swimming has reopened at the Gifford Pinchot State Park lake in northern York County after being closed for a week. The park announced that swimming reopened at noon Thursday, Aug. 20, after water tests showed normal bacteria levels. The beach at…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (725+ words) More should be done to ensure children learn how to swim in Hull, water safety experts say. Figures compiled by the BBC show just 57% of children from the city can swim 25m (82ft) proficiently when they leave primary school, compared with 72% nationally....