What is Olympic swimming?

Answer 1

Interesting facts: * swimmers wear noseclips * swimmers cannot touch the pool bottom at all during routines (even when they are throwing girls into the air) * for competition swimmers put knox Gelatin in their hair * underwater speakers are used

Answer 2

Olympic swimming is the same as most competitive swimming. There are four strokes; butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. One thing that MIGHT be different is that usually a 50 is two laps but it is a 50 yar pool so you swim a 50 in one lap.

Answer 3

Olympic Swimming Competition - Swimming Pool and Open WaterThere are 16 swimming pool events for men and women swimmers in the modern Olympic Games. In 2008 an open water, 10-kilometer marathon swimming race was added to the Olympic Swimming program. Freestyle or Front CrawlFreestyle is not specifically defined the way other strokes are - it is generally though of as front crawl, but any style could be used, including those not considered as competitive strokes. For competitive swimming purposes, everyone thinks of freestyle as the front crawl.

• Freestyle is the fastest way to move from one end of the pool to the other (not counting underwater with kicking) and everyone in a freestyle race in the Olympics will use front crawl.
• In the individual medley and medley relay events, the freestyle portion must be done with a style that has not been used already - so no backstroke, breaststroke, or butterfly.
• Freestyle swimmers use an alternating arm action, an alternating leg action, and breath to the side.
• Freestyle swimmers use a forward start off of a starting block. They might do a few dolphin kicks or fish-kicks off the start before they surface and begin to swim.
• Freestylers do a flip turn at each wall. They might do a few dolphin kicks or fish-kicks off of each wall before they surface and begin to swim.
• Freestylers finish the race by touching the wall with some part of their body, usually one hand.
• During a freestyle swim, the swimmer's head must break the surface of the water at or before 15-meters from the start and from each turn.

Backstroke or Back CrawlBackstroke swimmers must be "belly-up" whenever they are swimming, with one exception (on their way into a turn). This is measured by comparing the relative position of each of the swimmer's shoulders.

• The swimmers must have an alternating arm action (and will have an alternating leg action - that is the fastest way to swim backstroke).
• Backstroke almost looks like upside-down freestyle.
• Since a backstroker's face is out of the water most of the time, breathing is easier. Most will use a breathing pattern of in on one arm pull, out on the other, or in and out on each pull. Because of this greater ease of breathing, backstroke races are often "even-split" - the time it takes to do each length is about the same for an Olympic-level swimmers. If they are doing a 200 meter race, it might take 30-seconds for the first 50 meters (faster because of the start), then it might take 32-seconds for each of following 50 meter portions. They would split the race 30-32-32-32.
• Backstroke swimmers start in the water, with their feet against the wall, hands holding on to a starting grip. The swimmers must be rotated towards "belly-up" when their feet leave the wall, but they might be a little twisted, not 100% "belly-up" until they start their arms.
• Backstrokers do a flip turn at each wall, and do a few dolphin kicks or fish-kicks off the start or off each wall before they surface and begin to swim. The only time backstrokers are allowed to be "belly-down" is as they approach a turn. As part of the turning movement the swimmers rotates from "belly-up" to "belly-down" and then do a flip turn (just like a freestyle flip turn), pushing off the wall on their backs ("belly-up").
• Backstrokers must finish "belly-up" (on their backs) by touching the wall with some part of their body, usually one hand.
• During a backstroke swim, the head must break the surface of the water at or before 15-meters from the start and from each turn wall.

Answer 4

OK well firstly,

1. Around 65 thousand people (are estimated) in the United States don't know how to swim!! 2. The first recorded swimming race was held in Japan! 3. In freestyle races you can use any stroke but the most popular is the front crawl/freestyle. 4. Women weren't allowed to compete in swimming at the Olympics till 1912! 5. The bikini was named after a U.S nuclear testing site in the South Pacific, in 1946!! 6. Swimming wasn't included as a sport in the Ancient Olympics! Hope that heaps lol!! (:

Answer 5

-The pressure of water often hurts your ears and head because of the change of pressure in so little time.

Add more facts people!!!

Answer 6

if you move once on the block after whistle is blown you

can be disqualifed for false start.