Swimming & Diving
Swimming is a competitive and recreational sport in which participants use various motions to move their bodies through water. Diving is also a recreational and competitive sport in which participants jump into water, sometimes performing twisting or tumbling motions while in the air. There are many diving and swimming competitions in the Summer Olympics as well as in athletic events in the United States that are overseen by such organizations as the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Amateur Athletic Union. International competitions are governed by the Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur. This section features resources on swimming and diving.
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