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  • Gold Coast – South Africa’s Chad le Clos said on Thursday he would rather come second in the Commonwealth Games 50m butterfly after gold medal favourite Ben Proud was disqualified for a false start.

    Proud dominated Le Clos in their heat and clocked what would have been a Games record 22:84 seconds, but England’s defending champion was adjudged to have moved early on the blocks.

    It left Le Clos as the fastest swimmer in the morning’s prelims in Gold Coast with a time of 23.53. But the four-time world champion insisted he would prefer to line up against Proud than go for gold without him.

    “Absolutely, I’d rather come second – straight up,” Le Clos said.

    “I’d rather come second to somebody that deserves to win, but we’ll see what happens.”

    “I didn’t see him flinch at all,” added Le Clos, who is contesting seven events in Australia as he bids to become the most successful athlete in Commonwealth Games history.

    “No one likes to see that. As you can see he’s clearly the best 50m fly swimmer in the world. Hopefully they can overturn that, but it is what it is. Whether he’s there or not, I’m going to swim to win.”

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    History

    History Of Swimming

    In October 1933, about 10,000 years old cave and Rock swimming art were originated by Hungarian explorer ‘Laszloalmasy’. It is named due to portraits of people with bent limbs and contains painted rocks pictures. In Mehenjo Daro Pakistan, ‘Great Bath’ was the first swimming pool since 2800.

    Books

    In 1953: The first swimming book named ‘Colymbetes’ was written by German professor Nikolauswynmann. His main purpose was to minimize the danger.

    In 1587: A swimming book was also written by Everard Digby whose aim was that Humans can swim better than fishes.

    In 1595: A book was written on how to swim by Christopher Middleton which includes different examples of various types of swimming.

    In 1603: Dig by introduced a book where it was mentioned most important forms of swimming.

    In 1696: Melchisedechthevenot, a French author wrote a book which includes the art of swimming. It is similar to the latest breaststroke.

    In 1793: Gutsmuths which is from schnepfenthal located I Germany wrote a gymnastic book which includes an important section of swimming.

    In 1794: Kanonikusoronzio de Bernadi which is from Italy wrote a swimming book whose main focus was on floating practices.

    In 1798: A book named ‘Kleineslehrbuchder’ was written by Gutsmuths who recommended to use fishing rod while learning swimming. It also includes how to learn swimming.

    Competition

    In 1800: In the early 1800S in England, the swimming arises as a competitive sport.

    In 1828: The St. George Bath was the first indoor swimming pool that was opened to the public.

    In 1794: The two-volume book about the swimming was written by Kanonikusoronzio de Bernadi which was from Italy which includes floating practices.

    In 1830: In about 1830, competitive swimming arises in Britain that uses mainly breaststroke.

    In 1840: The British introduced speeder sidestroke where the swimmer lies on one side.

    In 1875: Between France and England, Matthew captain was the very first man to swim the English channel.

    In 1926: The Gertrude Ederle was the first woman in the year 1926 that swim through English channel and made the contemporary record in that.

    In 1928: The David Armbruster, a coach at the University, began the scientific study of swimming in the year 1928 that filmed underwater swimming.

    In 1934: Armbuster made a method to develop overwater swimming that brings the arm in the forward direction.

    In 1935: Jack Seig, a scientist developed a new technique for fishtail swimming that involves swimming through face down.

    In 1935: During official swimming competition, men wore the topless swimsuit for the first time.

    In 1943: Bikini was introduced in Paris as the US reduced the fabric of swimsuit by 10 percent that results in the two-piece swimsuit.

    In 1956: Flip turn was first introduced during the games in Melbourne.

    In 1991: The rules of swimming was changed so that to make sure the safety and health of swimmers.

    In 2005: Fina introduced underwater dolphin kick along with the breaststroke motion.

    In 2010: From Fina competition, body skins were banned after the demand of many federal swimmers.

    Reference Links:-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_swimming

    https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ikv9cLfBsNMC

    https://www.livestrong.com/article/342427-the-history-of-competitive-swimming/

     

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    https://youtu.be/eIVTGzWve5w

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  • World Record holder in the Men’s 50m Breakstroke, Adam Peaty, set twice the global mark at the FINA World Championships in Budapest 2017. In the 100m Breakstroke, Peaty revalidated his title from Kazan and set a new Championship Record. Fins out more about Peaty very successful year 2017