Swimming’s TopTenTweets: The Future of Swim Fandom

We’re back with swimming’s top 10 tweets, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse. We’ve got an eclectic assortment this week: from floating Eddie Reese to a lot of adorable kids, scroll to see what made the cut!

#10

Longevity – @MichaelPhelps has held the world record in the 200m Fly for 6,213 days. He's broken the world record 8x's total in this event. Who will be the next person to break this record? A lot of fast swimming ahead. pic.twitter.com/HLr8ZYHIte

— USA Swimming News (@USASwimmingNews) April 4, 2018

Nothing new here — just a visual representation of sheer dominance.

#9

https://twitter.com/caelebdressel/status/982598332953645058

We hope you love your strength coach as much as Caeleb Dressel does.

#8

Hey @swimswamnews it’s never to early to start them working hard right? #coachlife #momlife #coachmomlife pic.twitter.com/qQaKFqwVZ9

— 🧞‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️Kelsey Welsey🧜🏼‍♀️🧞‍♀️ (@KelseyKelsey7) April 6, 2018

It’s never too early for cords.

#7

https://twitter.com/c_erq/status/981715007439364099

Clearly a result of all that taper-induced excess energy.

#6

Got our capping method down. Almost Nats bound!! @swimswamnews @c_erq pic.twitter.com/pgaAXXQouk

— Lexi Plogger (@lexiboo222) April 2, 2018

Podium-worthy technique.

#5

3 of 4 Honda Sport Award Nominees Are Stanford Cardinal https://t.co/G8QbbUPWJv

— SwimSwam (@swimswamnews) April 7, 2018

go hoosiers https://t.co/b0imUAZNtl

— Lilly King (@_king_lil) April 7, 2018

Gotta represent.

#4

Me swimming for the first time since NCAA's today: pic.twitter.com/v9IREBPkeh

— Jeff Newkirk (@jeffnkirk) April 2, 2018

Nothing like a week out of the water to get you feeling like floating Eddie Reese.

#3

Love that Kyle Chalmers’ grandpa films his feats on a handycam! #GC2018 #commgames2018 #GC2018Swimming pic.twitter.com/JL0xVDF3sa

— Mark Mooney (@MarkMooney7) April 6, 2018

Olympic gold medalists: they’re just like us.

#2

They’ve been waiting (not very patiently) to watch @SiobhanMOConnor race & she made it worthwhile🏅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪#swimfans #twinfans #gc2018 pic.twitter.com/pjh3bLr3Iq

— Karen Pickering MBE OLY (@Karen_Pickering) April 8, 2018

Take note, world: this is the appropriate level of enthusiasm for swimming.

#1

Check out this little girl’s reaction to @_mackhorton’s Commonwealth 400m freestyle gold 🙌😊🇦🇺🏊🏻‍♂️🥇 pic.twitter.com/4CgubKPMRr

— Nick Hope – the athlete’s journalist (@NickHopeTV) April 5, 2018

We’re in for a good time if this (and #2) are what the future of swim fandom looks like.