When you think of swimming, what images come to mind? It doesn’t take long to see a row of athletes, lined up on the edge of the pool - slim, long, muscular bodies, swimming caps, goggles - ready to dive into the water and RACE. Getting to this level doesn’t happen overnight, those athletes have been training - day and night - for years to get to that point. In this episode of the podcast we explore the world of competitive swimming to better understand what it takes to be a competitive swimmer.
 
Hosted by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell.
 
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Cullen Jones
Alice Dearing
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The Politics of Swimming

Much more complicated than a mere history of...  This series is centered around the human relationship with swimming. What draws us to it. How do we use it, what do we gain from it… and what it can take from us.

We’ll be exploring swimming through the prism of ‘Physical Capital' - discussing the physical attributes that can give you an advantage in the water and how they’ve been used to achieve greatness and how they can be affected and influenced by politics, geography and the unequal distribution of resources.

Hosted by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell

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