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the only sport where the loser nearly drowns and we call it exercise
means The activity of moving through water using your limbs to stay afloat and propel yourself, whether for sport, survival, or fun.
from From Old English 'swimman,' to move through water by limb power, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'svimma,' Old High German 'swimman.' The root carries the sense of gliding or floating, and it has stayed remarkably stable for over a thousand years: humans have always needed a word for not sinking.
- oldest stroke
- cave paintings show humans swimming 10,000 years ago
- hidden cost
- elite swimmers eat up to 10,000 calories daily
- weird fact
- chlorine smell is actually chemicals reacting with sweat and urine
- buoyancy edge
- fat floats, so some bodies fight water harder than others
olympics 100m freestyle — caeleb dressel won gold in 47.17 seconds at tokyo 2020
english channel crossing — gertrude ederle swam it in 14 hours 39 minutes in 1926
iron man triathlon swim — 2.4 mile ocean swim in kona hawaii, part of world championship