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Your SA Olympic Update 🇿🇦 South Africa has obtained four medals:  🥇GOLD - Swimming 🥈SILVER - Swimming  🥉BRONZE - Mountain Biking  🥉BRONZE - Sevens Rugby  Well done to all the sports men and women who dedicate themselves to their sports and tried their best!  Keep a look out for our golfers giving it their best! 🏌️♀️ Follow our page for all the updated you need!  #pestanaattorneys #pestanainc #olympicupdate #keepingyouupdated #lawwithoutlimits #legalupdates #allyourlegalneeds

We learned a lot from the swimming Olympic Trials. We can't control what our competitiors do, but we sure can control what we do. Flex the control you have to create your influence. www.psych-edge.com #PsychEdge #SwimTrials2024 #flexyourcontrol

Think you know all the #Olympic sports? Think again! 🤔 Dive into the world of obscure #athletic gems like artistic swimming, modern pentathlon, and trampoline – proving the Olympics aren't just about running and throwing! 🏅✨ Also comment if you know any lesser known sport of Olympics! #GallantSports #HiddenGems #OlympicSurprises

The #Paralympics2024 have just come to a close! Have you ever wondered how Para athletes are matched against each other? 🤔 Check out how Delsys clients are using #EMG to redefine the classification system for swimming in the Paralympics! 🥇👉 bit.ly/4gmKJof

What does it take to swim in the most extreme conditions? 🌡 ❄️ From water temperature to wind and precipitation, every factor plays a crucial role in the swimmer's performance and safety. Learn about open-water swimming and the factors that influence every swim from the International Ice Swimming Association's European Championship 2024 highlights. #iceswimming #extremesports #endurancesports #resilience

5 Smart Ways to Avoid a Swimming Plateau

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Paris 2024 Olympic Swimming - Submerged #2 Men’s 400 Individual Medley: This is the closest Olympic swimming comes to a one horse race. Marchand (FRA) has a “complete set” in terms of his 200m quality across all four strokes. His transitions (changing strokes) and underwater work are the best. He will excel in the breast leg and the more time he is swimming freestyle (fastest stroke) while the others are still on breaststroke (slowest stroke), he effectively doubles his lead. After the easiest 4.08 I’ve ever seen in a heat, apart from Michael Phelps (USA) and Ryan Lochte (USA), one can throw back to the 1988 Seoul Olympics and you have a comparison in Tamás Darnyi (HUN). Carsen Foster (USA) although fastest in the world this year and comfortable with a 4.11 in heats, will likely be chasing for second. Women’s 100 Fly: Another chance for McKeon (AUS) to consolidate her place as Australia’s most medal winning Olympian but she’ll be doing it from the outside lanes - plenty have done it from there. However, Walsh (USA) with her Olympic Record in the semis, Huske (USA) and Kohler (GER) with impressive second 50’s, will make things difficult. A 29. coming home will most likely win this one. Men’s 100 Breast. The focus for this event is clearly on Adam Peaty’s (GBR) ability to secure his 3rd consecutive 100m Breaststroke Olympic title. With that status comes the age question. But old breastrokers make good ones - the average age of this final is 26.1 yrs, just over 2 years older than the average age of all top male swimmers in 2022. Fink (USA) will be a serious threat, as will Kamminga (NED), Qin (CHN) and Martinenghi (ITA) - the splits of each of these athletes indicates that any challenge to Peaty will come all in the final 20m. #olympicswimming  #Paris2024

Great to see the elevation of live attendances in swimming, and sport as a whole. Whether it is a demographic or pure volume-based approach as revealed below, the growth in sport will only continue to improve health, participation and happiness….Not to mention the subsequent market for sports, which facilitates the cycle of growth and its social impacts.