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In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming ...Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. ... Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was .... and some Pacific islands for generations, but was not known tothe British.

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