Swimming For Sport

I have never been a good swimmer myself, but the sport intrigues me. It’s like we are trying to mimic the creatures of the ocean much like we mock the birds in the sky. We are not meant to swim and to fly, but we defy.  Swimming has become a pretty big sport in the world’s eye since Michael Phelps won all those gold medals in the summer Olympics. A lot more parents have signed up their kids to swimming lessons, just so that one day, they will be as rich as Micheal Phelps’ mom.

Swimming for sport has been around forever. Since the very first Olympic games, man has been competing in swimming. It’s funny when you think about how many different events there are for swimming. How many different kinds of races and styles you can use while swimming. Freestyle, backstroke and butterfly stroke, just to name a few.

Although this site is about pools and not only are pools used for swimming events, they are also used for sports like diving and water polo. Even freestyle water dancing or synchronized swimming.  I think that one of the strangest things to come from swimming pools is synchronized swimming. It’s odd and always reminds me of old movies.

Anyways, swimming has been around for ever and swimming pools make it all possible. I’m sure in the early days they didn’t use swimming pools, but now we can enjoy swimming year round because of them.

I know this may seem a little odd, but have you ever used swimming as a means to win a bet? I have, which I know is a little unorthodox (at least to me), but it’s kind of like horse racing… except with people…in a pool. Sports betting is what makes watching sports tolerable (again, at least to me). I have a hard time watching football let alone swimming without some sort of fantasy element to it, or some high stakes.

So I ask this to you, the next time you are watching a swim meet or some diving, why not make it interesting?