Swimming
Swimming is an individual sport, and it is also a team sport. Both men and women can participate. It is highly competitive and requires a great amount of fitness and stamina.
There are four main swimming strokes. These are backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Butterfly is the hardest stroke to swim as a great amount of power is needed.
Swimming is a water sport. Competitions take place is swimming pools. An Olympic size swimming pool is 50 meters in length. There are also many outdoor events, which take place in the ocean, or lakes, or rivers. Swimming is mainly a summer sport but it can take place in winter. This is usually in an indoor heated swimming pool.
There are many events in a swimming gala. There are individual races, medleys and relay races. Each event is timed and it is every swimmers ambition to win the gold medal and break the world record.
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