Research often explores how the "swimming body" is viewed and "processed" through social and biological lenses.
However, searching for the core concepts behind that phrasing—such as the sexualization of athletes or historical abuse within swimming—brings up well-documented issues regarding the treatment of swimmers' bodies in both sports science and historical contexts. Historical State-Sponsored Abuse Swimmers.Turned.Into.Sexual.Processing.Tools.De...
: Artistic swimming (formerly synchronized swimming) is often studied as a field where female bodies are "processed" through a "beauty builder" lens, reinforcing specific aesthetic and feminine stereotypes. Research often explores how the "swimming body" is
The phrase might also refer to the systemic failures in protecting swimmers from sexual exploitation. The phrase might also refer to the systemic
: Some athletes, such as shot putter Heidi Krieger (now Andreas Krieger), were so physically altered by these "tools" of the state that they later underwent gender reassignment surgery. Institutional Sexual Abuse Scandals