Articles of category "Olympic swimming"

Olympic swimming innovations involve pool-modification (for example, lane dividers, which were introduced at Olympics 1924) and swimming technique modifications, for example a method to throw out arms forward in the water in breaststroke (1934), swimming on the side and moving swimmer legs synchronously like a fishtail. Forward tumble turns speeded up the swimming at long distance.

Olympic swimming history doesn't recount much concern swimming events in the history games of times gone by. Who knows for sure? The Greeks - the founding fathers of earliest Olympic Games - did not introduce swimming at the games, they were more interested in water sports, about which there is a lot of written and graphical evidences. The modern Olympic swimming era has developed itself only within the last 60 years, and is now swimming competitions are an integral part of Olympic competition.