Mireia Belmonte

I am going to talk about my favourite swimmer .She is going to represent Spain in the next Olympics Games an she calls Mireia Belmonte.

She was born in Badalona, Barcelona 10th November in 1990.She compete in freestyle, IM and butterfly. She started to compete at the age of 5. She’s broken five World Records in short course swimming, and also she broke a lot of Spanish records like  the 1500m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 200m IM, 400m IM, 200m breaststroke, 100m IM, 100m breaststroke, and the 800m freestyle. She also broke any of this more than five times.

She is the best Spanish Swimmer at the moment in the history of Spain because she is the only Spanish swimmer to win two medals in one Olympics Games.  This year also she got  the World Sports Award for Best Spanish Athlete in 2012. She also do a lot of sponsors like Speedo but her official supplier is Nike.She received one price of the Government, the “Royal Order of Sporting Merit 2013.”

All the people don't know she started swimming when she was four because she have scoliosis and she started swimming to correct for advice of the doctor. She also started training in the swimming club of her city . but in 2003 she went to the  Catalan Swimming Federation to training in a high level. Actual she is in the Sabadell Swimming Club when she moved in 2007.

And I hoe you do a good results in the Olympics Games this year.

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Michael Phelps

Today I am going to talk about Michael Phelps ,the American is the best swimmer in the world at the moment. He is the most decorated Olympian in all the time and he got 22 medals in three Olympiads and 18 of these medals are gold ones. 

His best fact was in the Beijing Olympics he won eight gold medals in 2008 in one Olympics Games.He won the 2003 Sullivan Award, and he was one of the youngest athlete in the United States. 

He was born 30th June,1985 in Baltimore ,MD.He competes in backstroke, butterfly, freestyle and individual medley.He trains in North Baltimore Aquatic Club and his coach is Bob Bowman. His height is 6’4″ tall .

He competed in his first Olympics at the age of 15 like a member of the U.S. men's swim team. He went on to win medals at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Beijing and London. 

He went to the University of Michigan but was ineligible to swim there, having accepted a sponsorship deal from Speedo swim wear. When he won the medals in the Beijing Games ,Speedo gave him $1million . For this fact his fans in Beijing nicknamed Michael Phelps the “Half-Man Half-Fish” and “Deep Sea Frog.”

He was setting the record for the most medal wins by any Olympic athlete. He announced his retirement in 2012. But in April 2014, he announced he was coming out of retirement and  he would return to professional competition at the age of 28.

His best fact was in the Beijing Olympics he won eight gold medals in 2008 in one Olympics Games. He won the 2003 Sullivan Award, and he was one of the youngest athlete in the United States.


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Why the USA is really good in swimming?

Hello in this post I am going to talk about the USA's team and why they are really good in swimming.

All the people know the USA have 520 total swimming Olympic medals and 220 of them are gold.And it is the best country in the world in swimming and there isn't any country close. Because the second country near is Australia with only 171medal. And all the people asking why the Americans are really good in swimming.What’s the explanation for the USA’s Olympic dominance?

America is rich country and also it is one are tops in GDP tend to rise to the top of the medal count.       But this  year America  got 31 medals in swimming . Swimming is especially important to America in terms of medal ambitions.In the last Olympics a Games there were  34 swimming and the USA medaled in 27 of them.
When it comes to nurturing and training top-level swimmers, America is the best nation in the world.  It have elite swimmers ! they grow up also in private swim clubs and matriculate at top college programs.

It is  well-organized and well-funded country in term of swimming. Because it pays their athletes $75,000 for each gold medal and  other an extra $50,000 for setting a new world record. It is impossible the USA don't get any medal in swimming. There are a lot of differences between the USA and the other countries in the world and also take advantage in swimming coaches and support infrastructure.

The United States is generally competent in all other sports. There are only three Summer Olympic events in which the USA has never medaled: badminton, team handball,table tennis, banishing baseball and softball from the games.  But they are really good and they always dominate in basketball and volleyball.

 There a lot of people think the American's athletes are so much good than other countries 's athletes and they really good in sports. But no it is true. It is true the USA is Arica country and use this money to promote the sports . And also use this money to provide scholarships from Americans swimmers or  foreigners.

I think you learn more about why the Americans are so good in swimming and no it is lucky . It is only work hard and spend a lot money to promote sports.


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Player Profile: Fiona Doyle, Swimming

This is a little video about Fiona Doyle. I hope you will enjoy and learn about her.

This video she stars to talk about a little introduction about herself and when she started to swimming. She talks about her dream is put the Irish swimming in the maps and she talks about her different competition in other counties. Also she refers she is so glad to stay in her team because she feels like part of something and there is always any to help you if you need it.

A really important thing is going to happen in Ireland

In this post I am going to talk about the one of the person is going to represent Ireland in this Rio Olympics Games. In Ireland all the people know rugby and hockey but there are others sports like swimming there are less important.

And this girl  won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games in Gwangju.This girl  calls Fiona Doyle and remember the name. All the people hope she is going to put the Irish swimming on the maps.

 She was born in 4th October,1991.She is training in two clubs call the first one Portmarnock SC(IRL)and the name of her coach is Peter O'Brian(IRL). And the other one call University of Calgary SC(CAN) and the name of her coach is Mike Blondal(CAN).
And her main event is the 100m breaststroke. She also have like the Top Ten swimmers her own   inspirational quote. It says the pain is temporary and the pride lasts forever.
The day of one athletic  is vey hard a lot hours training in the pool, gym ,healthy food.... She  begins the day  at 5am, when she spends two hours in the pool before heading to the gym. After breakfast, a brief rest, lunch and another pool session. She spends the other time coaching young kids in the local club or studying.

She does every day of the weeks all the days because if you like being good in something you need dedicate a lot work and effort.She was training is right up until Christmas Eve and then resuming the day after St Stephen’s Day.

She is going to have  training camps the whole month of January, two international meets in January and February, the European Championships in May and maybe one or two more events in June. Also she has the Olympics in August .

I also want to wish all people participating in the Olympics Games good luck .because you can see the effort this girl puts in her every day to go to a competition.

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In this photo you can see her in one competition.She is going to put the Irish swimming in the map.Good luck in the Olympics Games..

A little introduction

Hello everyone,

This is my first time doing a blog and I am very nervous. I choose swimming because it is one of my favourite sport and it is really nice sport to do because you can exercise all the muscles in your body. In this blog you can discover how was invented ,the main rules and another interesting facts. I hope you enjoy the blog and you enjoy this amazing sport that I like so much.

I'm talking about one of my favourite sports ,swimming is one of the world’s oldest sports, and there is evidence of the sport being practiced in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. But in the 19th century that organized swimming competitions with more frequency. Swimming baths were opened in Liverpool, England, in 1828, and by 1837, London had six pools where were a lot of competition.
 
Also there was started clubs in Australia. On February 9, 1858, what is believed to be the first international race was held in St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia; Joseph Bennet from Sydney defeated Charles Steedman from England.But the most important was in the United States, all the people know for a national championship, was run by the New York Athletic Club in 1883.

Swimming is one of the sports playing in the Summer Olympic Games and we can see the Rio Olympics Games. In the first half of the 20th century,  only the “freestyle”, “breaststroke” and “backstroke” styles were known in 1956 that “butterfly” was introduced in the styles of swimming and competitions . Women’s swimming made its debut in 1912 and was the first one ever happened. Now the women’s program has the same number of events as the men’s.

Three swimming events were included on the program at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896: the men’s 100 meters, 500 meters and 1200 meters. Women’s events added to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

All the countries compete between their to know what is the best country in swimming.It is The U.S. has won 519 swimming medals, a third of all the swimming medals ever awarded. The U.S 's team was Michael Phelps,he won 22of these medals and the most decorated Olympian of all-time. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Americans collected 31 total medals and nearly half of all the gold medals (16). Australia has claimed the second-most swimming medals in Olympic history. Unfourtenetly,Australia had a poor performance at the London Games, it only earning 10 medals, because always it got more medals.

In the last Olympics Games the best countries were USA, China, Russia, Great Britain and Germany.

And Ireland was in the number 40th  with one gold and silver medal. Also it got three bronze medals.

There is a woman is the best at the moment in the top competition. My favorite swimmer is Mireya Belmonte.She is a Spanish swimmer , Mundial , European winner and Olympic runner. She also compete in the styles , butterfly and freestyle.

This year is going to celebrate the Rio Olympics Games. It going to be on 5th-21st August. And the swimming competition at the Summer Olympics 2016 are scheduled to take place from 6 to 13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The open-water marathon will be held from 6 to 7 August in Fort Copacabana.

I hope you enjoy my first article and you learn more things about swimming. See you in the next post.


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