{"id":80749,"date":"2021-02-06T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=80749"},"modified":"2021-02-06T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:53:15","slug":"swimming-as-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/swimming-as-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming as a hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Strokes\/ styles &#8211; butterfly, freestyle, individual medley, backstroke.<br \/>\n2. Rules of the game<br \/>\n3. Michael Phelps.- why he won so many medals?<br \/>\n4. Olympics, World Aquatics Championships- sport details<br \/>\n5. Indian swimmers- name few<br \/>\n6. Open water swimming<br \/>\n7. Where in India swimming sport can be developed?<br \/>\n8. Size of swimming pool at Olympics?<br \/>\n9. Who is your favourite swimmer and why?<br \/>\n10. Why do you think we don&#8217;t get medals for Swimming in Olympics?<\/p>\n<h2>Other questions on swimming<\/h2>\n<p>(i)\u00a0<strong>Is swimming the best form of exercise<\/strong>? What are its advantages, disadvantages\/limitations ?<\/p>\n<p>(ii)\u00a0<strong>What are various forms of swimming<\/strong>(e.g. free style, back-stroke, breast-stroke, butterfly, medley, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>(iii) Olympics and International competitions have large number of medals in swimming and diving competitions, where India has little presence or fares poorly.\u00a0<strong>What should be India\u2019s approach to win more medals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(iv)\u00a0<strong>Know about prominent international swimmers and Olympic champions<\/strong>\u00a0(like Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi, Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps) and\u00a0<strong>prominent Indian swimmers and national champions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(v)<strong>\u00a0Should there be free use of technology to develop faster and better swim suits<\/strong>? Or will this mean that it is the better technology which is winning, rather than the better swimmer?\u00a0<em><strong>Will technology overshadow the human effort?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Strokes\/ styles &#8211; butterfly, freestyle, individual medley, backstroke. 2. Rules of the game 3. Michael Phelps.- why he won so many medals? 4. Olympics, World Aquatics Championships- sport details 5. Indian swimmers- name few 6. Open water swimming 7. Where in India swimming sport can be developed? 8. Size of swimming pool at Olympics?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/swimming-as-a-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swimming as a hobby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}