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Swimming in Nigeria
Olympics Swimming Competition
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Swimming in Nigeria
Swimming Sports Training Activities
Swimming is a recreational sport that makes use of the arms and the legs in order to move the body through the water. It can be performed in a team or individually in a swimming pool or clean open water.
It is a sport that has existed many centuries ago which history dated 2000 years even before the birth of Christ. Locally, people have swum in small rivers or lakes just to catch the vibes associated with it not minding the nature of the water whether neat or dirty.
In Nigeria, swimming was made popular mainly through the river line communities across the country such as the Delta state and Rivers among others; they started practising swimming as a habitual sport back in those days.
Later in those days, the construction of swimming pool facilities was introduced at different recreational centres and some hotels in Nigeria where people who have a passion for swimming started recreational swimming; others who have ever desired to choose swimming as a career started making their career training from there.
From the pools, some have become experts through practices and extensive training and have then moved to open waters to practice the basics of swimming as an Olympic sport and to kick off as competitive swimmers. They are mainly the people that are seen and heard of today putting Nigeria in the world history in swimming championships across Africa and beyond.
