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Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, The Odyssey, The Bible, Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1778, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming (Der Schwimmer oder ein Zweigespräch über die Schwimmkunst). Competitive swimming as we know it today started in the United States started around 1800, mostly usingbreaststroke. Many Americans often used swimming competitions to settle differences in the frontier, such as property rights. In 1873,John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing, Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 Richmond Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. In 1908, the world swimming association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.

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Swimming has never been "invented" or "discovered". It was just what people began to do to prevent themselves from drowning. They had pools way back to the times of the Roman Empires, but back then, they called them bath houses. What was invented was competitive swimming which developed over the centuries. People added to the sport, changed it and more.

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A brief history of community Swimming Pools, they were around as early as 2500 B.C. in ancient Egypt then Greece, Rome, and Assyria. In Rome and Greece, The Romans built the first dedicated swimming pools, that is they had no connection with bathing pools and and the first heated pool was built in Rome in the first century BC. Modern swimming pools became popular after the first modern Olympic Games in England. The popularity of public swimming pools didn't take long to catch on world wide after that .followed with the advent of the private swimming pool in the 1950s.

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