Olympics Swimming

Micheal Phelps...world's best male butterflyer

Natalie Coughlin...World's best female backstroker

Kitajima...World's fastest Japanese swimmer

Ryan Lochte...World's hottest swimmer when his hair is short 8p

Missy Franklin...World's fastest 15 year old

Each nation is allowed to enter a maximum of two swimmers in each individual event or one relay in a relay event. The numbers are limited to provide an opportunity for each country to participate and still be able to conduct the swim meet in a reasonable period of time.

It all depends on what you need to stretch for. Some good things to stretch before any sport is your legs, arms, shoulders and ankles. If you stretch these before you exercise then you are less likely to pull a muscle or injure yourself.

Kieren Perkins

20.91 seconds (long course) - César Cielo (Brazil).

When you are not in a streamline position in swimming, drag can occur. This is when you body is stopping the water from freely moving past your body. You may notice when you begin to sink while you are swimming that you slow down. This is because the lower part of your body is creating drag by stopping the water from quickly passing you legs.

Michael Johnson (USA) set the 200 Meter Dash World Record at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games with a time of 19.32 seconds.

Swimmer Michael Phelps was only fifteen years old when he made his first appearance at the Olympic Games.

On Saturday morning Penny Palfrey went for a dip. A little over 40 hours later she emerged after setting the world record for the longest solo unassisted swim.

Her 68-mile trek across the Cayman Islands in nothing but a standard swimsuit and goggles bypassed packs of sharks, powerful currents, and unpredictable weather.

When she finished her swim last night at 11:11 P.M., her face and tongue were so swollen from the salt water she was unable to speak but she did manage to raise her arms in victory

A suitable age to start swimming depends on the individual child; however, by 14 months, a child can learn to swim. Technically a child can learn to swim before then, but to be safe 14 months is recommended. This way, the child's verbal skills have been developed enough to express or show signs of being uncomfortable in the water.

To become classed as an Olympic pool, a swimming pool has to pass many specifications, just not in length. Width, depth, number of lanes, temperature and light levels are all taken into consideration.

Length, 51 metres, 50 metres between the touch pads.
Depth, 2 metres minimum,
Width, 25 metres,
Number of lanes, 8 +2 which are not used. Each lane must be 2.5 metres wide,
Temperature, 25-28 degrees Centigrade,
Light Level, 1500 Lux,
and lastly Volume, 2,500m3 minimum depending on depth.
Exactly 50 meters.

today tens of thousands of people come to participate in the olympic games but back in the ancient times only the villagers of Greece participated in the games

There are 11,028 Athletes in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Michael Phelps of the US was the top winner at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning a record 8 gold medals at a single Games in various swimming events.

Front crawl, sometimes misnamed a freestyle, is when you swim on your front with your arms windmilling alternately and your legs providing propulsion by alternate up and down motion.

Freestyle is officially any stroke, i.e. in a 100m freestyle you can actually swim any stroke, however most people swim frontcrawl as this is the quickest.

The woman's record in the 200 m butterfly is currently held by Zige Liu of China and is a 2:04.18

Long enough for you to become a raging diabetic...

Sporting History: Stephanie Rice started swimming when she was a toddler learning the simple facts of swimming. She kept with her swimming as she got older and started competing in swimming competitions when she was in the 9th grade. Stephanie Rice's childhood ambition was to win a gold medal at the Olympics.

Using the minimum requirements for an "Olympic" size swimming pool of 50m long, 25m wide and 2m deep, volume in mm is 2,500,000,000,000. An ITTF approved table tennis ball is 40mm. If they stack perfectly in the pool, they will stack just like if they were cubes. The volume of a cube the same size is 64,000mm. If stacked perfectly 390,625,000 ping pong balls should fit into an olympic swimming pool.

1908 and 1948 (prior to 2012).

Dawn Fraser is 79 years old (birthdate: September 4, 1937).

Missy Franklin (born May 10, 1995 in Pasadena, California) is an American swimmer. Franklin holds the world record in the 200-meter backstroke and the American record in 100 and 200-meter backstroke.

Franklin is also a member of the 2012 US Olympic team.

Ian Thorpe is 28 years old (birthdate: October 13, 1982).

chad le clos lives in Pinetown in Durban ,South Africa (yes he's from Africa)

Men: Johnny Weissmuller of the United States in both 1924 and 1928.

Women: Ethel Lackey of the United States in 1924 and Albina Osipowich of the United States in 1928.