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Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
FINA By-Law BL 9.3.6.4 (swimming) and BL 9.3.7.5.3 (open water) lays out the qualification procedures for the "Swimming" competition at the Olympics. [9] Each country is allowed to enter up to two swimmers per individual event (provided they qualify), and one entry per relay; and a country may not have more than 26 males and 26 females (52 ...
In the first four Olympics, competitions were not held in pools, but rather in open water (1896, the Mediterranean Sea; 1900, the Seine; 1904, an artificial lake; 1906, the Mediterranean). The 1904 Olympics ' races were the only ones ever measured in yards, instead of the usual metres.
N.C. State swimming coach Braden Holloway, an assistant Olympic swim coach, addresses the crowd during the 2024 United States Olympic Swim Team practice on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at the Triangle ...
Before coming to the Olympics, Moussambani had never seen a 50-metre-long (160 ft) Olympic-size swimming pool. He took up swimming eight months before the Olympics and had practiced in a lake, and later a 12-metre-long (39 ft) swimming pool in a hotel in Malabo, [6] that he was given access to only between 5 and 6 am. [7]
In his College sophomore year in 1932, he won the Big Ten Championship and then the national championship on the 400-yard freestyle relay team. [7] At the NCAA Championships in 1932, he was on Northwestern's winning 400-yard freestyle relay team that set a time of 3:36.6, swimming with Paul Troup, Volney Wilson, and Merton Wilcox. [8]
The Olympic qualifying process for Laos is much different than the United States. Because Laos is a relatively small country, tucked away in the southeast corner of Asia with a population of 7.5 ...
As a boy, Schollander moved with his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon. [5] Although his first sporting passion was football, he was too small to compete in high school football. [6] Instead, he joined Lake Oswego High School's swim team, and in 1960, helped lead the team to an Oregon state swimming championship as a freshman. [6] [7]