Sentence examples for competing in the pool from inspiring English sources

He enjoyed middling success competing in the pool.

The American Troy Dumais, also a 3-meter springboard diver, said he has enjoyed competing in the pool, but added that the center is not perfect.

Phelps, competing in the pool used at the 1976 Olympics, improved on his previous best of 50.58 set in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

This is what made me stop competing in the pool and take up open-water swimming, where speed and sprinting matter less.

Competing in the pool in which she qualified for her first Olympics as a teenager in 1984, two years after her first national championship, the 40-year-old Torres came in at 24.53 seconds, a personal best that beat her American record of 24.63 in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

How is U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps keeping himself busy when he's not training or competing in the pool?

The Paralympics GB chairman, Tim Reddish – who competed in the pool in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney and amassed five medals in the process – recalls that in 1992 family and friends were unable to watch him swim because workers from the local Seat plant had been bussed in to watch for nothing for the afternoon.

Four years ago she competed in the pool as well, but this time she has had to watch as her team-mates have struggled, with the honourable exception of Michael Jamieson and Rebecca Adlington, who will be a bridesmaid at Payne's wedding, and look on as elsewhere Britain's medal favourites have, largely, matched expectation.

The Stockport swimmer still intends to compete in the pool in London, just as she did in Beijing.

Scottish swimming fan Stefan Hoggan bought tickets on Friday to see James Anderson compete in the pool in his sixth Paralympics.

From Saturday 28 July to Saturday 4 August, 900 athletes will compete in the pool events at the Aquatics Centre.