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British Olympic Swimmers Visit Hospital

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The Olympic swimmers Duncan Goodhew and Mark Foster visited Christ’s Hospital school as part of a promotion for the Sport Relief Swimathon. This year there are 644 pools around the UK taking part in the swimathon.

OLYMPIC swimmers, Duncan Goodhew and Mark Foster, and BBC Breakfast sports reporter, Mike Bushell, joined Christ’s Hospital school pupils for a swimathon promotion to be broadcast on BBC Breakfast show.

The swimmers joined pupils at Bluecoats Health and Fitness Club to recreate some of the swimming categories of the 1900s, including the plunge, the under water swim and the obstacle, which have now been dropped from the Olympics.

Ben Way, who organised the swimathon said Christ’s Hospital have been one of the biggest school supporters of the Sport Relief swimathon over the last few years.

He said: “Considering there 644 pools around the country taking part, to be one of the biggest school pools involved is a big achievement.

“People who do a 2.5 to 5KM swim will be doing it for Marie Curie. This is the first time we have had a swimming option as well as a running option and we already have a few thousand people involved and we are hoping that’ll be tens of thousands by the time of… continue reading

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A Look at the British Olympic Synchronized Swim Team

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This summer the British Olympic synchronized swim team is striving for gold. They are hoping to sweep up medals with routines are very physically challenging and graceful and expressive at the same time.

It is late morning on a Tuesday in January and I am poolside at the Garrison Sports Centre in Aldershot which, as well as providing sporting facilities for the Army, has been the home of Great Britain’s elite synchronised swimming squad since 2007.

Thirteen pairs of flip-flops, 13 sports bottles and the odd muesli-filled Tupperware box line the water’s edge.

Suddenly in front of me two rows of swimming-capped heads and blue-costumed torsos burst through the surface of the water and plummet down again, one after the other. Their linked hands shoot into the air as a wave of movement passes through the group.

A second later, all you can see above the water are two rows of perfectly extended legs overlapping and scissoring. Then each swimmer’s legs trace an arc in the air, the group making a movement like the closing of a fan.

The effect is magical and – for an Olympic sport – frankly rather odd, not least because the girls’ faces are split by identical… continue reading

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