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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.
Diving at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore was scheduled for the 21 till 24 of August, and consisted of the boy's and girl's 3 meter springboard and the boys' and girls' 10 meter platform. There were 48 competitors total. Diving took place at the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex.
The ban on full-body men's swimsuits is still in effect ahead of Tuesday's slate of swimming competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.. Here's what the years-long swimsuit ban means for the ...
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When Spitz returned from the Olympics, he began dating Suzy Weiner, a UCLA theater student and part-time model, who also was the daughter of one of his father's business acquaintances. [39] [49] Less than a year after the Munich Olympics, they were married on May 6, 1973, [46] in a traditional Jewish service at the Beverly Hills Hotel. [43]
Breckynn Willis, a state champion swimmer for Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska, was disqualified during an event last Friday after an official determined that her swimsuit was too revealing.
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]
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.