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Swimming and STYLES OF DIVE Starting position
Hands
above head
diving

SWIMMING WAS INCLUDED in the first
modern Olympic Games in 1896 and diving
Legs fully Flight
SWIMMING events were added in 1904. Swimming is both stretched
GOGGLES an individual and a team sport and races take Arched
back
place over a predetermined distance in one of the four major
categories of stroke—freestyle (usually front crawl), butterfly,
breaststroke, and backstroke. Competition pools are clearly
marked for racing and antiturbulence lane lines are used to Toes Feet
separate the swimmers and help keep the water calm. The pointed together
first team or individual to finish the race is the winner.
Entry
Competitive diving is divided into men’s and women’s
springboard and platform (highboard) events. There are Hands close
six official groups of dives: forward dives, backward dives, together
armstand dives, twist dives, reverse dives, and inward dives. FORWARD DIVE BACKWARD DIVE
Competitors perform a set number of dives and after each
one a panel of judges award marks according to the quality
SWIMMING POOL
of execution and the degree of difficulty.
Swimmer Lane Starting
number block Lane timekeeper
Chief
timekeeper
End wall
Latex rubber
molds to shape Placing
of head judge Starter
SWIMWEAR
Recorder Side
wall
High
neckline
Backstroke marker
CAPS 49 ft (15 m) from Anti-
Rubber-
covered end of pool turbulence
wire lane line
NOSE CLIP Referee
Molded Stroke
rubber Man-made judge
stretch Backstroke
fabric turn indicator
EARPLUG 16 ft (5 m) from
end of pool
Drawstring
Bottom
High-cut line
leg

Turning Turning
judge wall

Lane
Strong seam
75 ft 6 in
SWIMSUIT TRUNKS (23 m)
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