London Aquatics Centre

• London aquatics centre is located at A115, Straford, and London, UK.

• It was built on 27 July 2011.

• Its surface is for swimming and diving pools.

• Its construction cost was £269m.

• The capacity is 17,500 (2,500 Post Olympics).

The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50 meter swimming pools and a 25 meter diving pool. It will be one of the main venues of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and the London 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Design.

It was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadidin 2004 before London won the bid. The centre is located in the Olympic Park at Stratford in east London. With its distinctive architecture and curved roof, it will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park.

Construction.

Despite the cost increases, the centre should stay within the total construction budget for the event, which is an estimated £6.09bn. Construction started in July 2008 and was completed in July 2011.The aluminium roof covering has been provided by KalzipThe steel structure was built in cooperation with Rowecord Engineering. The ceiling was built with 30,000 sections of Red Laura timber.

The six-board dive tower is made from 462 tones of concrete. The steel roof weighs 3,200 tones. The three pools hold around 10 million liters of water.

The Swimming competition at the 2012 Olympics are scheduled to be held:

Pool: 28 July – 4 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre, and open water: on 9 & 10 August in The Serpentine in London's Hyde Park.

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Swimming uniform.

The bikini is a women's two-piece swimsuit. One part of the attire covers the breasts and the other part covers the groin and part of or the entire buttocks, leaving an uncovered area between the two. Merriam–Webster describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit" or "a man's brief swimsuit". It is often worn in hot weather, while swimming or sunbathing. The shapes of both parts of a bikini resemble women's underwear, and the lower part can range from revealing thong or g-string to briefs.
Bikini underwear.

Types of underwear worn by both men and women are identified as bikini underwear, similar in size and revealing nature to the bottom half of a bikini bathing suit. For women, bikini underwear can refer to virtually any tight, skimpy, or revealing undergarment that provides less coverage to the midsection than traditional underwear.

The term men's bikini is used to describe types of men's swimsuits, men's underwear, or similar garments. Men's bikinis can have both high or low side panels, string sides or tie sides, and most lack a button or flap front. Many do not have a visible waistband like briefs. Suits less than 1.5 inches wide at the hips are less common for sporting purposes and are most often worn for recreation, fashion, and sun tanning.
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swimming competition.

There are eight common competitions swum in freestyle swimming, both over either along course (50 m pool) or a short course (25 m pool). The United States also employs short course yards (25 yard pool). Of course, other distances are also swum on occasion.

•  50 m freestyle

•  100 m freestyle

• 200 m freestyle

•  400 m freestyle (500 yards for short course yards)

• 800 m freestyle (1000 yards for short course yards)

•  1500 m freestyle (1650 yards for short course yards)

•  4×50 m freestyle relay

•  4×100 m freestyle relay

•  4×200 m freestyle relay

Young swimmers (typically 8 years old and younger) may swim a 25 yard or 25 meter freestyle event. These shorter events are usually for swimmers who are slower than similarly aged swimmers or may have difficulty swimming longer distances.
Freestyle is also part of the medley over the following distances:

•  100 m individual medley (short 25 m pool only)

•  200 m individual medley

•  400 m individual medley

•  4×100 m medley relay

In the long distance races of 800 m and 1500 m, some meets hosted by FINA (including the Olympics) only have the 800 m distance for women and the 1500 m distance for men. However, FINA does keep records in the 1500 meter distance for women and the 800 meter distance for men.

The Swimming competition at the 2012 Olympics are scheduled to be held:
Pool: 28 July – 4 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre, and open water: on 9 & 10 August in The Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. Olympic Swimming Tickets are available at Sport Ticket Exchange at reasonable prices. Sport Ticket Exchange is an excellent place for Olympic fans to buy or sell Olympic Tickets especially Swimming Tickets.

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Swimming rules and regulations.

Freestyle means any style for individual distances and any style but breaststroke, butterfly or backstroke for medley competitions. The wall has to be touched at every turn and upon completion. Some part of the swimmer must be above water at any time, except for the first 15 meters after the start and every turn. This rule was introduced to prevent swimmers from using the faster underwater swimming to their advantage, or even swimming entire laps underwater. The exact rules are:

•  Freestyle means that in an event so designated the swimmer may swim any style, except that in individual medley or medley relay events, freestyle means any style other than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly.

•  Some part of the swimmer must touch the wall upon completion of each length and at the finish.

•  Some part of the swimmer must break the surface of the water throughout the race, except it shall be permissible for the swimmer to be completely submerged during the turn and for a distance of not more than 15 meters after the start and each turn. By that point the head must have broken the surface.

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Swimming History

Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written references date of swimming from 2000 BC. the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible. In 1578, Nikolas Wingman, a German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, swimming in Europe started around 1800, In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing, Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 Richmond Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. In 1908, the world swimming association, Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.

The Swimming competition at the 2012 Olympics are scheduled to be held:
Pool: 28 July – 4 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre, and open water: on 9 & 10 August in The Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. Olympic Swimming Tickets are available at Sport Ticket Exchange at reasonable prices. SportTicketExchange is an excellent place for Olympic fans to buy or sell Olympic Tickets especially Swimming Tickets.


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Women swimming events and records

Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games and the one with the largest number of events.

The women's 100 meter butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held on the 15 of October at the Scotia bank Aquatics Center. The defending Pan American Games champion was Hersey of the (U S).


Name of women who got 1st three positions in 100 meter butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 Pan American games.

1.Claire Donahue belong to UnitedStates got 1st position and the time was 58.73.

2. Daynara de Paula from Brazil got 2nd position in the 59.30 time.

3. Elaine Breeden from United States and the time was 59.81.


list of top countries and medals in  olympics swimming from the duration of (1912-2008).


1. United States (USA)=208 medals.

2. East Germany (GDR)=74 medals.

3. Australia (AUS)=70 medals.

4. Netherlands (NED)=43 medals.

5. Germany (GER)=31 medals.

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Swimming Records Women

Women's swimming is a great and popular part of the Olympics that has produced the great women athletes like Misty Hyman, Amanda Beard, Janet Evans, Inge de Bruijn, Brooke Bennett, Yana Klochkova, Coughlin and Jodie Henry.

Swimming Records in Olympics - Women

• Heike Friedrich of East Germany holds the record of women's 200 meter freestyle swimming event. In the 1988 Seoul Summer Games, he made the record timing of 1:57.65 seconds.
• Janet Evans of USA had the timing of 4:03.85 seconds in women's 400 meter freestyle swimming event. The event was 1988 Seoul Olympics.
• Inge De Bruijn of Netherlands holds the Olympic record in women's 50 meter freestyle and 100 meter butterfly swimming events. Her timing was 24.13 seconds and 56.61 seconds in both the events respectively and the records were made in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
• Jodie Henry of Australia holds the Olympic record in women's 100 meter freestyle swimming event. In the 2004 Athens Summer Games, she made the record timing of 53.52 seconds.
• Brooke Bennett of USA holds the Olympic record in women's 800 meter freestyle swimming event. Her timing was 8:19.67 seconds and the event was the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
• Natalie Coughlin of USA holds the record of women's 100 meter backstroke swimming event. With a record timing of 59.68 seconds, it was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
• Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary finished women's 200 meter backstroke swimming event in record 2:07.06 seconds. The event was 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
• Xuejuan Luo of China holds the Olympic record in women's 100 meter breaststroke swimming event. With the timing of 1:06.64 seconds, the record was made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
• Amanda Beard of USA finished the women's 200 meter breaststroke swimming event with the record timing of 2:23.37 seconds. The event was the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
• Misty Hyman of USA completed the women's 200 meter butterfly swimming event with the record timing of 2:05.88 seconds. The achievement was in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games.
• An Australian team comprising Alice Mills, Lisbeth Lenton, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry holds the Olympic record in women's 4X100 meter freestyle relay swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 3:35.94 seconds.
• An Australian team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry holds the Olympic record in women's 4X 100 meter medley relay swimming event. The record was made in the 2004 Athens Summer Games with a timing of 3:57.32 seconds.
• A USA team of Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sandeno holds the Olympic record in women's 4X200 meter freestyle relay swimming event. The event was 2004 Athens Summer Games and the timing was 7:53.42 seconds.
• Yana Klochkova of Ukraine holds the twin records in women's 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley swimming events. Both the records were made in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games. In the 200 meter individual medley and 400 meter individual medley, Yana's timing was of 2:10.68 seconds and 4:33.59 seconds respectively.

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