yes swimming is an olympic event
A tied is broken by another race of the same even between those indiviuals that tied (usually 2).
the 1st olympic swimming pool was in 1899.
a swimming stroke
No, swimming is only in the Summer Olympic Games
There are usually 50 meters in a Olympic sized swimming pool.
Swimming has been held at every Olympic games since 1896. Open water swimming was added in the 2008 Olympics.
Swimming pool sports started from Britain around 1830, but first swimming pools games started in Olympic in 1896.
United States Olympic Trials - swimming - was created in 1920.
Swimming races and diving
they are Olympic records and there are list of them in the link below.
in an olympic swimming pool its 50m