Admitting you can't swim in a nation girt by sea can be embarrassing. Learning to swim as an adult is difficult, but it's far ...

Lessons are 25 minutes long in groups of 4 ... and swim a short distance independently without assistance. In this level we will begin teaching freestyle swimming with rollover and side breathing, ...

I advise taking lessons from a regular swimming coach and learning freestyle (crawl stroke) first so you can work more on conditioning in the water. Then you can start to practice the stroke on ...

In the 50m freestyle, for example, some competitors don't breathe at any point during the race. Freestyle swimming has been included in every modern Olympics. Currently, freestyle is contested in more ...

Starting swimming lessons can be an exciting yet daunting ... Stand in the shallow end and practice freestyle arm movements.

The graph below shows the progression of gold medalists' times for the 200-meter freestyle swim since 1896 ... and hover over the points to learn each year's result. While zoomed, click and ...