Beijing Olympics 2008: Interesting swimming facts

Do you know that swimming was one of the sports events held in first Olympics in 1896? Do you know that the first swimming events took place in the chilling water of the Saronic Gulf and the swimmers were first carried by boats? You will come to know many such interesting facts from ‘Factbox: Swimming,’ an article published by the Reuters. The Beijing Olympic Games is going to start from today and swimming is one of the popular Olympic events.

If you are a swimming fan then you will like this article. It has many interesting facts about the swimming event of Olympics. For example, in the first Olympic Games of the Twentieth Century (1900), the River Seine was chose as the swimming venue. Want to know more? Then check out this interesting article on swimming.