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Pages in category "Films about Olympic swimming and diving" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If the upcoming two-week long, 24/7 coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris leaves you wanting ...
The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (2018) Four years after Lifetime released their biopic on Gabby Douglas, they celebrated Olympic gymnast Simone Biles' rise to the top at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Competitive swimwear refers to the swimsuit, clothing, equipment, and accessories used in the aquatic sports of swimming, diving, artistic swimming, triathlon, and water polo. Some swimsuits are designed specifically for swimming competitions where they may be constructed of a special low resistance fabric that reduces skin drag.
Women's diving debut happened at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the platform event and was expanded to springboard diving at the 1920 Summer Olympics. A parallel platform diving event for men, called "plain high diving", was presented at the Games of the V Olympiad. No acrobatic moves were allowed, only a simple straight dive off the platform. [3]
Cook, 29, a former Stanford diver from The Woodlands, Texas, made her first Olympic team in 2016. She, too, has known heartbreak — she missed in 2012 by less than a half-point.
The history of competitive swimwear has been dominated by concerns over public nudity in the first half of the 20th century and by efforts to reduce water drag in the second half. [1] Those efforts initially led swimmers to reduce the early sagging one-piece swimsuits down to briefs only.
I was getting into this thing — the most expensive swimsuit I've ever worn, at about $550 — no matter what. But now I was sweating — really sweating — as I tried every dressing room hack ever learned. “It's too tight,” said one woman. “They gave me the wrong size,” grumbled another. No, all the suits were sized correctly.