Sports and games: Project 3

Going for sport is very important for each of us as it keeps us healthy. It is very good if you are having some morning exercises, press-ups, sit-ups…
In summer I go to swimming pool.  I choose swimming because I like that sport very much.
Swimming is one of the world’s most popular and widely viewed sports.

Swimming has three kinds of styles:

• Freestyle (free)
• Breaststroke (breast)
• Backstroke (back)
• Butterfly (fly)

 Events in competition may have only one of these styles except in the case of the individual medley, which contains all four. In this latter event, swimmers swim equal distances of butterfly, then backstroke, breaststroke, and finally, freestyle. In Olympic competition, this event (called the "IM") is swum in these distances - 200 or 400 meters or yards. Some competition also swims the 100 yard or meter IM - particularly, for younger swimmers (typically under 14 years) involved in club swimming, or masters swimming (over 18).

Flap (Also known as "Doggy Paddle") isn’t an accepted style of swimming, according to FINA Swimming Rules, but it is still considered a popular technique used for non-competitive swimmers. It helps keep the human head above water so the individual does not drown, yet at the same time propels the individual in any direction in a "flapping" or "doggy paddle" motion, thus the term Flap-Style Swimming.

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Swimming (sport)

The sport of swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 14,000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible, Beowulf, Quran and other sagas. Many Americans often used swimming competitions to settle differences in the frontier, such as property rights. In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the trudge to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans and African-Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing, Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl's flutter kick. In 1884, a picture drawn by a European settler in the United States depicts an African doing the “Australian crawl" - before the front crawl was standardized in Australia and then perfected in the United States. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 Summer Olympics|1896 in Athens. In 1902 Cavill family (swimming) |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.

Thematic Vocabulary

athletics – ատլետիկա
discus – սկավառակ
hammer – մուրճ
javelin – նիզակ
gymnastics – մարմնամարզություն
wrestling – ըմբշամարտ
weightlifting – ծանրամարտ
rowing – թիավարություն
archery – նետաձգություն
shooting- հրաձգային սպորտ
yachting- առագաստանավային սպորտ
fencing – սուսերամարտ