Swimming

Olympic swimming

This history of this sport starts since prehistoric times, the latest recording was in the stone age(paintings), it emerged as an competitive sport in 1830 in England, by 1837 it started to be competitions around said country , this sport became popular 1880 when national competitions started to be held in different parts of the country, until it became popular between the world’s most powerful countries at that time.

Swimming became part of the Olympic sport in 1896 in Athens, the goal of this sport is to beat then opponent in a certain event, the point of these sport is the create the least resistance to water in order for them to go faster.

Swimming is held during the summer Olympics organized in 16 events both for me and women, these event are held in 50x25 meter pool divided in 8 lanes (official Olympic size) ,the international governing body is known as FINA (international swimming federation).

There’s also another type of Olympic swimming called Open water that consists on swimming several types of event on a lake, sea or river. Normally these kinds of competition are distance events (5k, 10k and 25k) but only the 10k is considered an Olympic event it is also for men and woman.

Normally swimming has 2 seasons the short-course (25m or yards) and long-course (50m) but as seen on the Olympic the 50 m is the official one.

Some of the most successful swimmers in history are Mark spits, Matt Biondi, Johnny Weissmuller, Michael Phelps, Ian Thorpe, Jennifer Thompson, Lorraine Fraser among others.

It is a complicated sport due to the amount of time that you dedicate to it for example Olympians train in the pool 12 times a week during periods of 2-3hours a day beside they have to do dry land training and gym.

In the following post i will develope some topics related to this sport