Athletics is good, and I too tend to watch quite a bit of swimming. But, no one really ever follows swimming except for in the Olympics.
When they had the WC finals in swimming in Stockholm, last year I think, I arrived at the venue at the same time as team USA. Walked into the stadium next to Phelps and just froze! We walked next to each other across the parking lot and into the building, like 250 meters, and the only thing I was thinking about was trying to come up with something decent to say. Didn´t happen, so I just walked there, like a star struck muppet. 🙂