London Olympic swimming competition

SWIMMING
This coming London 2012 game athletes are reminded to the key of becoming an olympic medalist; the speed, strength and stamina. A historical man Michael Phelps awarded his new record in the last 2008 Beijing olympic.

This competition will be participated by 950 athletes of 34 medal events. Base on the schedule, this event will be on July 28 to Aug 4 at Aquatic center - olympic park and August 9 to Aug 10 at Hyde Park

Olympic basic rule

Since from the start, olympic swimming competition has four basic strokes used namely;freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. These four strokes will be features in individual and relay medley.

Jargon Buster
- long course
- Medley
- negative split
- open turn
- tumble turn

long course - term if it is a 50-meter long pool of the type used in olympic competition. short course only measures half of it or 25-meter

medley - a term for an event in which there are a combination of swimmer or team swim separate legs of freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

negative split - it is a term in the competition in which the swimmer athlete swim fastest than the second half of the event.

open turn - this is what we commonly see, a term in which the swimmer atlethes must touch the other side of the pool.

tumble turn - An underwater roll at the end of a lap, which allows swimmers to push off from the end of the pool with their feet.

LONDON OLYMPIC TICKET

The facts all about the London 2012 Olympic bid. There are stages on how the ticketing registration process.

pre-registration period - began in March and the Locog (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) has been busy collating all of the information to establish an idea of which sports are proving the most popular, and for which demographics.

By registering, prospective spectators provide Locog with information about the events that they might like to purchase when the tickets become available. They also provide basic details, which will then be used as the first stage of the ticketing ballot system when it is released in 2011.

• There will be 9.6million tickets for sale - 8million for the Olympics and 1.6million for the Paralympics.
• Organisers say 75 per cent of all tickets will cost less than £50 and offer free travel on London transport.
• Tickets for the athletics will start at £15 and there will be 20,000 £10 tickets for the Olympic Park to watch events on big screens.

Research of the initial registration process has shown track and field, swimming and gymnastics are the top three sports that the British public want to purchase.
Opening and closing ceremonies, track cycling, swimming and weightlifting will be the hardest to get, mainly because these sports are played in smaller sized venues and the ceremonies are always in extremely high demand.
For all of the sessions that are over-subscribed – and these are expected to include swimming and diving, beach volleyball, boxing, tennis, track and field finals, gymnastics, track cycling – there will be a ballot.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Michael Phelps in LONDON OLYMPIC 2012

Is Michael Phelps still be the top in London Olympic? At an age of 23 he gathered almost all medal in his game, but this coming 2012 he will be turn to 27. Does it affects his agility? Maybe this boy will still amaze us. We'll see. Below is a short summary on how he became one of the famous Olympian.

The amazing Michael Phelps. This man is responsible for almost 25% of USA's medals for the last 2008 Beijing Olympic. At a young of 23 years old, these man swam his way to 8 gold medals and holds the record winning the most gold medals in a single Olympics.

Michael Phelps Record:

• 400m Individual Medley
• 4x100m Freestyle Relay (with team mates Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak and Garrett Weber-Gale)
• 200m Freestyle
• 200m Butterfly
• 4x200m Freestyle Relay with team mates Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay)
• 200m Individual Medley
• 100m Butterfly
• 4x100m Medley Relay