Aquatics-+Diving,+Swimming,+Synchronised+Swimming,+Water+Polo

**How to play** Competitors perform a series of dives from either a springboard(three metres) or a fixed platform(ten metres). Judges award points up to 10 depending upon their elegance and skill. Points are adjusted for the degree of difficulty, based on the number and types of manoeuvres attempted, such as somersaults, pikes, tucks and twists. In the Synchronised Diving events, pairs of athletes dive in tandem and receive an additional mark for their level of ‘synchronisation’. || **How to Play** Synchronised Swimming is sometimes called ‘water ballet’, because competitors perform short routines to music in the pool. Routines are judged on technical merit and artistic impression. In Synchronised Swimming you need advanced water skills, great strength, endurance, flexibility, grace, artistry and precise timing, as well as great breath control when upside down underwater.Athletes use nose clips to help them stay underwater for longer, while underwater speakers help them to stay synchronised.The events are for women only. A Duet and Team(for groups of eight). || **How to play** Water Polo is a water-based version of Handball. Players use a ball weighing between 400g and 450g. The aim is to score goals in a three metre wide and 90 centimetre high net that sits on top of the water. Each team only has 30 seconds to score before the ball is passed to the opposition. You are not allowed to touch the bottom or the side of the pool during match, which lasts for four quarters of seven minutes each. || include component="backlinks" page="Aquatics- Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo" limit="10"
 * Aquatics consists of four disciplines. They are Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming and Water Polo. ||
 * [[image:Pictutrdfsfrtgfre1lamkbrlamkbrlamkbrlamkbr.jpg width="184" height="259"]] || **Diving** Diving first satarted at the St Louis 1904 Games and has been continuous since 1908. Synchronised Platform Diving and Synchronised Springboard Diving were added for the Sydney 2000 Games.
 * [[image:Picture1swimming.jpg width="216" height="155"]] || **Swimming** Swimming has been in every Olympic Games since 1896. At the first three modern Olympic games Swimming took place in open water - in seas, rivers and lakes. A pool was used for the first time at the London 1908 Games, where the rules were made standardised. The four strokes used in swimming are freestyle, backstroke breaststroke and butterfly. The newest Aquatics event in the Games is the 10km Marathon Swimming competition which took place for the first time in Beijing in 2008. **How to Play** Olympic races﻿ take place in a 50m long pool divided into 10 lanes, with only the middle eight lanes used by swimmers. The swimmer who touches the pool wall first at the end of the race is the winner. The Olympic programme includes both individual and team events for both men and women. The Marathon Swimming races are swum outside in areas of open water such as the sea, a lake or a river, and competitors usually swim circuits around buoys positioned in the water. ||
 * [[image:Pictutyfgvglamkbrre1labkbrkbrlamlamkbrknbelam.jpg width="208" height="147"]] || **Synchronised Swimming** Synchronised Swimming has been at the Olympic Games since London 1948 but did not achieve medal status until Los Angeles 1984 Olympic games.
 * [[image:347766-water-pololamkbrlamkbrknrlamkbelam.jpg width="261" height="190"]] || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Water Polo** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Men’s water polo made started at the 1900 Paris Games. Now there is Women’s Water Polo, which was started in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.