Swimming at the Summer Olympics

Swimming Australia is the peak governing body for competitive swimming in Australia. The body has approximately 100,000 registered members nationally in 1100 clubs across the country, which includes swimmers, coaches, officials, administrators and volunteers. The body oversees the management and development of the sport from the national team at the elite level, the conduct of national and international events, through to grassroots participation. The organisation's vision is to become Australia's

day life are soccer, tennis, swimming, boxing, rowing, boating, golf, and basketball. (DiFranco, 103). Some of these sports are new to the Italians, however, they are catching on quite quickly and starting to be played at higher levels of competition. The Italians' range of levels go from the Olympic games, to a high level of league play, all the way down to recreational

Olympics holds competitive events that people look forward to. This is where men and women athletes get to represent their countries legacy and pride. It contains many competitions such as basketball,soccer,archery,wrestling,swimming,etc. Though, the Olympics games were first instituted by the Greeks. Greece created in honor of the king of gods, Zeus. Every four years, athletes from all over Greece would play in the Olympics .However, after 1986, the Olympic games were held in different venues around

The Olympics by kelcee Swimming, running, gymnastics any sport you can think of, that’s all in the Olympics. But people are starting to think that they should stay in one place, I think not. They should move around because it gives a little more pride to that country then they had before. Although people think that the Olympics should stay in one spot moving from country to country gives them pride to be hosting a world wide event. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics restored most of Japan's pride

The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an event held in the city of Moscow, Soviet Union, in Soviet era Russia. The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be held in Russia, and remain the only Summer Olympics held there. They were also the first Olympics to be held in a Slavic speaking nation. The Moscow Olympics were also the first socialist nation to hold an Olympic event, and the only Summer Games to be held in a socialist country until 2008 in Beijing

“Yes, the Olympic Village will be something for rich people”, said Eduardo Paes, Rio’s hardcore mayor, “but there’s no shame in that”. . To be selected to host the the Olympic games, a city must have a full array of event venues. From stadiums, swim pools to golf courts and equestrian centers, these facilities which construction workers spent years building were in the limelight for a couple weeks, but then what happens? Some of them were transformed for other purposes. After the Summer Games

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. The original Greek games were staged every fourth year for several hundred years, until they were abolished in the early Christian era. The revival of the Olympic Games took place in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year, except during World War I and World War II (1916, 1940, 1944). Perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern Olympics is that the former was the ancient Greeks’

Sports Science and Medicine , Halls of Residence and Administration Buildings completed. 2000-Austuralia held the Summer Olympics main highlights of the games: The first star of the Games was Ian Thorpe. 1. The 17-year-old Australian first set a new world record in the 400 m freestyle final before competing in a rough 4 x 100 m freestyle final. Swimming the last leg, Thorpe passed the leading Americans and arrived in a new world record time, two tenths of a second ahead of the Americans

Vitor Franca Mr. Michael Copeland IEP Writing Skills 7 May 2013 The Eight Michael Fred Phelps was born in 1985 and grew up in Baltimore. He decided to start swimming when his two sisters made their first attempt in the US Olympic trials. At first, he was afraid of putting his head under the water, but years passed and he was no longer scared by the water. When he decided to try his first swim meet, it was the moment he made his first decision, among many others, which he would make to achieve

2016 The Legacy of the Baltimore Bullet Known as the Baltimore Bullet or Flying Fish (Olympics), Michael Phelps is also known as an Olympian, writer, philanthropist, and one who has had legal problems; identities that come together in an athlete that has left a legacy that may never be surpassed. Showing dominance extending from the beginning of his career to the very end, he is the greatest athlete that the swimming world, and perhaps even the entire world of sports has ever seen. Phelps’s unprecedented