for swimming there is a meet called Olympic trials to reach that point there are tie standards you must reach. From that point the swimmers swim once in prelims where the top 16 move on to semi finals once the swimmers swim here the Field narrows even more down to 8 swimmers finally the swimmers swim one last race in the finals the top two swimmers in that race go to the Olympics
Nahim
You practice everyday
Yes there is a swimmer named michaela but she didn't go to the Olympics or anything.
Ian Crocker
Rebecca Adlington
any country can do the Olympics
Sharath M. Gayakwad was the one armed swimmer at the Paralympics in London. He is the first Indian swimmer to swim in a Paralympics.
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Micheal Jordan
A lot
phelps
A lot