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Olympics Swimming
Swimming has been a sport at every Olympic games and has the most events of any Olympic sport. Well known Olympic swimmers include Michael Phelps, mark Spitz, Ian Thorpe and Dara Torres.
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What is the lane size for a junior Olympic pool?
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A pool that is used for the junior Olympics (I'm assuming that's what you're referring to) is either 25 yards or 50 meters long, depending on the country you're in. In the US, the JO size is 25 yards.
AnswerThere really is no Jr. Olympic pool. If one is referring to a pool that is used for the AAU Jr. Olympics, the pool dimensions are the same as full grown Olympics. If one is referring to a pool that is smaller than an Olympic pool (Jr. in size) Then a short course pool is usually found. Here are the standards used for Olympic pools. I found this on the usaswimming.org website. Follow the following link.http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/6d93bb35-b042-42e2-95c2-de5b83f74083/2005%20Rulebook1protected.pdf
AnswerThe lane size for any pool used in USA swimming championships and international competition is 8 feet 2 1/2 inches or 2.5 meters from divider to divider with approximately .45 meters or (1 foot 6 inches)of additional open water for the outside of the outside lanes. AnswerSince this is not a internationally recognized size, at least in US a Junior Olympic Pool would be either 20 meters or 25 yards. Neither of them truly is half of Olympic size pool.ANSWER
Competition pools in the US are usually one of four lengths. They are 25 yards, 25 meters, 55 yards, or 50 meters. These lengths are chosen because only pools of these lengths are recognised for the establishment of record times by US swimming regulatory bodies such as USA Swimming. Recreational pools come in all shapes and sizes and are not CERTIFIED. Competition pools must be certified by an engineer to be within very strict limits so as to provide a standard length for setting records. International rules are different (see FINA ). If you want to determine conversions from meters to yards it is generally acceptable to add 10% to a yard time to yield a close approximation of a meter time. This is true because a meter is about 3.37 in longer than a yard. Mile distances are rounded to the nearest full length. For example a mile in a yard pool is 70 lengths or 1750 yds, actually 10 feet shorter than a mile. The best way to determine whether the pool you work out in is 25yds or 25 m is to get a tape measure and measure the pool.
When did Michael Phelps earn his college degree?
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he is in college right now at the University of Michigan. he hasn't graduated from there yet
What is the name of the black lines on the bottom of a lap swimming pool?
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It depends one what pool you go to. There are some swimming pools that have lines on the bottom and there are others that do not
What sports does Peru participate in the Summer 2008 Olympic Games?
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Peruvian athletes have competed in both summer and winter Olympic games over the years with their most successful Olympics being the 1948 London games where Edwin Vásquez won a gold medal for shooting in the men's 50m pistol event.
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What is the standard event order for high school swimming?
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- 200 Medley Relay
- 200 Free
- 200 IM
- 50 Free
- Diving
- 100 Fly
- 100 Free
- 500 Free
- 200 Free Relay
- 100 Back
- 100 Breast
- 400 Free Relay
How many gold medals did ian thorpe win at the 2000 Olympics?
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At the Olympics, 5.
2000 Summer Games in Sydney - 400 meter freestyle, 4x100 meter freestyle relay, 4x200 meter freestyle relay.
2004 Summer Games in Athens - 200 meter freestyle, 400 meter freestyle.
What is the names of the 2012 olympic swimmers?
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The date of the 2016 Olympic Swimming Trials is not yet known. It will likely take place in the late winter/early spring of 2016, just as the Trials did in 2012.
The location is also not yet known. USA Swimming, based in Colorado Springs, (under the oversight of the U.S. Olympic Committee) is responsible for putting on the trials. On July 8, 2012, they announced that they had accepted bids from 16 cities to host the Trials and would decide which of the 16 they would accept in May 2013. USA Swimming declined to name the 16 bid cities, but noted that the cities might make themselves publicly known on their own. Six of the bid cities have done that:
-Greensboro, NC
-Indianapolis, IN (hosted '24, '52, '84, '92, '96, '00 & '04)
-Jacksonville, FL
-Long Beach, CA (hosted '68, '76 & '04)
-Louisville, KY
-Omaha, NB (hosted '08 & '12)
Cities that want to bid for the Trials have to have an appropriate venue with a regulation pool and large crowd capacity. In addition, USA Swimming requires that they have rights to use the venue for an entire month to allow for preparations and testing. Large cities with major, multipurpose arenas tend to find this last requirement onerous.
What year and city did Michael Phelps win most Olympics?
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He started in 2000, so he has comepete for 8 years in the Olympics.
What age did Michael Phelps start swimming?
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Michael Phelps began swimming at age 7 at the North Baltimore Swimming Club.
What are the dimensions of a semi Olympic sized swimming pool?
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It is 100 yards long
An Olympic sized swimming pool is 50 meters long by 25 meters wide (164 feet x 82 feet).
Who won the men's world swimming championship?
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This is an ambiguous question. World champs are held every 2 years. Which one are you referring to? And which event? There is not one overall winner.
How many cans of soft drink does it take to fill an olympic size pool?
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An Olympic pool holds about 660,253 US gallons of water.
There are 128 fluid ounces in a US gallon.
The average US soda can is 12 ounces, so there are 10.6 cans to a gallon.
660,253 (gallons) x 10.6 (cans of soda to a gallon)= 6,998,681 12 fluid ounce soda cans it would take to fill an Olympic sized pool.
Where did Michel phelps win his 8 gold medals?
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Bejing Olympics 2008
In the 2008 Bejing Olympics
How many lengths must you swim in an olympic pool to swim 1 km?
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Twenty in a 50 meter pool (Olympic), or 40 in a 25 yard pool (collegiate). However, there is no 1 km race in an olympic pool, it is either an 800 meter or a 1500 meter, which they call the mile.
How many gold medals does Michael phelps need to get to be the greatest Olympian all time?
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18
What are the different synchronized swimming terms?
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freestyle; breaststroke; butterfly; and backstroke
Click on the 'Synchronized Swimming Positions' link on this page to see the positions used in synchronized swimming and read a history of the sport. There are many different terms. Some basic ones are "crane" and "ballet leg"
How many gold medals did Michael phelps win in 2012 Olympics?
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4 Gold Medals and 2 silver Medals. The 4 × 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley Gold Medals were won as a member of the team. The 4 × 100 m freestyle Silver Medal was also won as a member of the team
Youngest swimmer to swim 1 mile?
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Lots of people can swim a mile at a very young age. I think I first swum 1 mile at the age of 6.
Which country has won the most swimming medals in the Olympics?
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The most amount of gold medals ever won at a single Olympic swimming competition was 8, and it was done by Michael Phelps of the US at the Beijing 2008 summer Olympics.
Who are the top five record holders for 100 meter butterfly?
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Steffen Deibler holds the world record in the 50m butterfly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_swimming
What size of semi Olympic pool?
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A semi-olympic pool is 25 meters long by 12.5 meters wide with a depth of between 1.2 and 1.6 meters.
How does agility help in swimming?
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yes infact they do , they need it to swim fast enough and to average there wind speed in the water and the strenght/power ,persistence they need or have to per filled in the water/pool/race [etc]
Does Michael Phelps still swim in the summer Olympics after getting caught smoking marijuana?
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Yes! Phelps will compete in the 2012 US Olympic Swimming Trials, if he makes the team(top 2 spots in each event) he will swim in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. These Games will be his 4th (Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London) and final.
