Swimming
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Humans swam for thousands of years gladly, although we know nowadays little details about the beginnings of swimming. Australia is surprisingly one of the countries, where comparatively much over the origins of swimming and the preference admit to the water in the early history of mankind are.
Were the Aborigines, the natives of Australia, who moved since their beginnings in the damp element. It gives also today few countries from swimming is as inspired, as Australia and its to inhabitants. In Australia practically each inhabitant can swim, not only as obligation exercise, but because it really makes fun for him.
The role, which plays football in Germany, table tennis in China and baseball in the USA, takes a swimming in Australia. That, which is successful in swimming in Australia, is a made man. Kieren Perkins, which won the 1,500 meters freestyle with the olympic plays in Barcelona and Atlanta, is an example of it.
Ian Thorpe - an Australian as icon of the swimming sport
The most important representative of the Australian swimming sport is Ian Thorpe, which became with swimming the millionaire and its own Fernsehshow has. Thorpe is admits for its unmistakable swimming styles, which admits Thorpedo under term „“became. Decisive for this its radical swimming training, which it operated over long years concentrated, is natural.
Thorp was it also, which swam the match distance of 400 meters in almost the same average speed, as she was usual still years ago on 100-Meter-Strecken. Also in this regard the olympic plays of Sidney were in the year an important milestone in the history of the Australian swimming sport and the Australians and not least Ian Thorpe belonged to the most outstanding features of these plays.
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