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    Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Swimming
    Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Swimming
    Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Swimming
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    Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Swimming

    By Kyle Richardson

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    This is your complete guide to Swimming at the London Summer Olympics. Learn about swimming, who is on the American Olympic team and which athletes to expect on the podium. This guide is your complete insider look at Swimming in the 2012 London Olympics. Includes tips on how to become an Olympic swimmer!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyle Richardson
    Release dateJul 16, 2012
    ISBN9781476390796
    Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Swimming
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    Kyle Richardson

    Kyle Richardson is an Olympic fanatic. During the 1996 Games he gave himself a bladder infection because he did not want to leave the couch. Overshare? Maybe. Or maybe it is just a preview of all of the amazing Olympic facts that you will find in his guide books. Be brave, buy a book, and find out for yourself.

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      Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides - Kyle Richardson

      BRIEF HISTORY

      Prehistoric man learned to swim in order to cross rivers and lakes. The earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Swimming was also referred to in Greek mythology in sagas such as Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and Beowulf. Swimming is even mentioned in the Bible, in the books Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, and Isaiah 25:11.

      Swimming was not widely practiced as a sport until the early 19th century. In 1778, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming. When the National Swimming Society of Great Britain began to hold competitions in the 1880s, most early swimmers used the breaststroke, or a form of it. Adventurers to America learned swimming techniques from the natives of South America and the South Seas, taking this knowledge and developing new strokes for the Western world.

      In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, a variation of the Native American front crawl but with a scissor kick to reduce splashing. In 1902 Richmond Cavill introduced the Australian front crawl (the precursor to what we call "freestyle today) to the Western world.

      The world swimming association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed in 1908. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to the butterfly stroke. The butterfly was accepted as a separate style in 1952.

      Swimming has been featured on the program of all editions of the summer games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added

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