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Swim >> Fun Facts
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- Where did this sport begin?
- What's the estimated number of participants of this sport in the USA?
- How old is this sport?
- Plato considered a man who didn't know how to swim uneducated.
- In a time when endurance exploits were prized higher than races against time, the supreme test was the English Channel - the Channel was considered impossible to swim.
- At the first modem Olympic games in 1896, only the freestyle events were held, with the competitors relying on various interpretations of the breast or Trudgen stroke.
- In 1900, a backstroke event was added, and with the crawl becoming the dominant freestyle form, the breaststroke was made a separate competition in 1904.
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