We’re back with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse. Thanks to a little someone named John Legend, swimming – more specifically, learning to swim – had a landmark week on the interwebs; his initial tweet about not knowing how to swim garnered over 115,000 likes, with nearly 7,000 replies. So from the Stanford women’s team’s apparent love for Legend and wife Chrissy Teigen to a swim cap older than some of our readers, scroll to see what made the cut!
Featured Instagram Post of the Week:
Icy.
10.
Cleaning out an old backpack to go workout tomorrow (for the first time in a long time) and I found this in the pocket. My USADA slip from when I made the team. That was a fun day. pic.twitter.com/wvQTIpVDLK
— David Plummer (@davideplummer) January 29, 2019
The only kind of pink slip you want to get.
9.
Mei Fukushima is so fast he can run on water #poolcoversprint @swimswamnews @PurplesSwimming #skynation pic.twitter.com/qAxWPMWaiH
— Coach Dee Wilkins (@SKYSwimTeam) January 31, 2019
High knees FTW (or maybe a shallow pool??)
8.
Sad day … RIP cap you had a good run of 11 years 🥺 #Swimmersproblems #swimmerlife #ohwell pic.twitter.com/R1cUmCXp0O
— Ivan Sanchez (@ivanelcoach) January 30, 2019
ELEVEN?
The tweet that started it all:
I can't really swim. Today I took my first swim lesson since I was like 5. My dad learned in his 60's so I feel like I'm ahead of schedule.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) January 28, 2019
7.
Great form (and might as well make use of that beautiful backyard pool!)
6.
https://twitter.com/MayaDiRado/status/1090621489903067137
Truly a small price to pay.
5.
We met years ago at the 2012 @SI_Swimsuit party and I’d love to help you out. Promise I can make this easier for you!
— Natalie Coughlin (@NatalieCoughlin) February 2, 2019
Also wow Chrissy and Natalie can discuss their cookbooks, this is perfect.
4.
I will pay YOU to let me teach you how to swim @chrissyteigen https://t.co/GYXDZpOLwc
— Lia M. Neal (@LiaNeal) January 30, 2019
Hard to refuse that…
3.
@chrissyteigen @johnlegend IM BEGGING!!!! Pleeeeaaassseee!!! pic.twitter.com/ZXW2C0xJnF
— Simone Manuel (@swimone) January 31, 2019
Needless to say, this was not Simone’s only tweet on the subject.
2.
All. Lies. Hahaha https://t.co/ul2toK3N8f
— John Legend (@johnlegend) January 28, 2019
We’re SHOOK.
1.
I’m taking swim lessons this spring. Thanks for sharing your story. I no longer feel ashamed.
— Jamillah Jackson (@jymbj) January 28, 2019
The most important outcome of all.
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