Swimming History
This is where the 2024 Olympics were held:
Where is Paris, France?
This swimming event has all four strokes being demonstrated:
What is the IM (Individual Medley)?
This is the event that Katie Ledecky just set the Olympic Record in during 2024 Olympics:
What is 1500m freestyle?
This is the type of medal you get if you win first place at the Olympics:
What is gold?
This is the chemical used to keep the pool water clean:
Chlorine
You have to place in the top _ in an event at the Olympic Trials in order to compete at the Olympics.
What is 2?
This stroke has a "dolphin kick"
What is butterfly?
This swimmer is a twelve-time olympic medalist and also a model. She was also on season 9 of Dancing with the Stars and her partner was Alec Mazo.
Who is Natalie Coughlin?
This is equipment you would use if you are doing a kicking-workout in the pool:
What is a kickboard?
This is the length of an Olympic Swimming Pool:
What is 50 meters?
This is a football stadium they converted to a Natatorium for the Olympics Swim Trials in 2024:
This stroke is named after a human body part:
What is breaststroke?
This swimmer won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics games.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This allows you to open your eyes underwater:
What are goggles?
This is where the largest swimming pool in the world is:
Where is Chile? (A Guinness Book of World Records holder, the pool has an area of 19.77 acres and can hold 66 million gallons of water.)
This swimmer had their own talk-show:
Who is Ryan Lochte?
For this stroke, you are not on your stomach/front:
What is backstroke?
Who said this "It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day." (Hint: he was the swimmer that hosted his own talk show.)
Who is Ryan Lochte?
These are things swimmers put on their feet that help them move faster and kick faster:
What are fins?
This is how many gallons of water an Olympic Size Swimming pool can hold:
What is 850,000 gallons of water?
This is the location that I completed my first open water swim:
This is the fastest stroke to swim:
What is freestyle?
This is the city that Michael Phelps is from:
(It is my LEAST favorite city in the world)
Where is Baltimore, MD?
This is something swimmers will wear overtop their swimsuit to create resistance in the water during practices:
What is a drag suit?
This is what a swimming complex (if the pool is in a separate building) is called:
What is a natatorium?