In competitive swimming events, the official pool rules for scratch typically involve notifying the meet officials before the event starts if a swimmer is unable to compete. This allows for adjustments to be made to the event lineup. Swimmers who scratch from an event after it has started may face penalties or disqualification.
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Most international competitive swimming events, particularly those hosted by FINA, the international swimming organization that oversees Olympic swimming, use Omega touch pads.
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Swimming can be competitive or recreational (also: synchronized swimming) Competitive swimming is divided into four different strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breastroke, and butterfly. These can be combined in different lengths to create many swimming events.
There are 34 swimming events out of the 46 in Aquatics. There are also 8 Diving events and 2 events each for Synchronized swimming and Water polo
The three more common triathlon events are swimming, cycleing and running. The basic idea of a triathlon race is endurance. Athletes compete in these events for several reasons including awareness for causes as well as pure competitive sportsmanship.
There are 17 Men'a events and 17 Women's events for Swimming
The four strokes are butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, and freestyle. (freestyle can be about anything but what you will see in the Olympics and in most competitive events is the Australian crawl)
The first olympic games that synchronized swimming appeared in as an official sport was in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. However only the solo and duet events took place.
The International Olympic Committee defines aquatic events as swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, and water polo.
There were 19 NOC that medaled in swimming events. 166 of the 204 NOCs had athletes in the 34 swimming events see related link
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