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International Olympic Committee results database; Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-033-2. HistoFINA Swimming Medallists And Statistics At Olympic Games, January 31, 2015
Olympic Games have been the most important international swimming competition. While men's events were an integral part of all Olympics, women's races were introduced only in 1912, and until 1924 were limited to a couple of freestyle events. Public nudity was a major concern in designing early swimwear.
Keri-Anne Payne (born 9 December 1987), is a South African-born British swimmer, specialising in marathon open water swimming, and long-distance freestyle swimming in the pool. She is a two-time 10-kilometre open water world champion, and an Olympic silver medallist.
Olympic swimmers wear suits that are so tight they can take upwards of 40 minutes ... sometimes half an hour or more for women, they tug their uber-tight and inelastic suits up over bulging thighs ...
The 2024 Paris Olympic artistic swimming team is elite at waterproof makeup. The USA Olympic team — which includes Keana Hunter, Anita Alvarez, Daniella Ramirez, Megumi Field, Jamie Czarkowski ...
In every single swimming event, from the men’s 50-meter free to the women’s 400-meter IM, humans have shaved second after second off world-best times throughout and since the 20th century. The ...
Olivia Smoliga (born October 12, 1994) is a two-time Olympian and American competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke and freestyle events. She won a record eight gold medals at the 2018 World Championships, becoming the first swimmer, male or female, to win eight or more gold medals in a single FINA World Swimming Championships or FINA World Aquatics Championships.
The 2024 Olympic Swimming Trials are coming full circle 100 years later. Just as top swimmers competed at the 1924 trials in Indianapolis ahead of the 1924 Paris Olympics, today’s swimmers will ...