The 2024 Paris Olympics will feature 17 swimming events per gender and four different strokes across a range of distances.
WASHINGTON — Swimming at the Olympics is a competitive event that brings together swimmers from all over the world.
An Olympic-sized swimming pool, which is 50 meters long, is divided into eight lanes for the events. Most swimmers opt for the front crawl, which features an alternating overhand motion of the arms and a scissor or flutter kick to propel swimmers forward. It is the fastest stroke of the four featured in the Olympics. Like the front crawl, the backstroke combines an alternating motion of the arms with a flutter kick.
Out of the four strokes, the backstroke is the only one where athletes are not facing down - posing a challenge for swimmers when tracking their position in the pool. Downward-facing strokes allow swimmers to look at the black line on the pool floor as a point of reference.The breaststroke is the slowest of the four categories and can be difficult for athletes to master.
The technique for the butterfly stroke originally comes from the breaststroke, but swimmers recover their arms above water instead of beneath it. In addition to the four strokes, there are medley events that use all four strokes in the same race. Individual medleys require swimmers to use each of the four strokes for one-fourth of the race in a specific sequence: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.
Medley relays are made up of a team of four athletes and each member will swim a different stroke. Like the individual medleys, it also follows a sequence: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.
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