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I didn’t get a lot of photos of swimmers diving into the pool. For one thing, I had to keep out of the way of the officials. To me, some weren’t particularly good at diving but they’re still mostly quite young. The person in the top left photo is competing in a backstroke event. To begin this race, the swimmers are in the water and face the wall. They hold onto bars with their hands and brace their feet against the stand. When the hooter sounds, they launch themselves backwards. Some arch their backs a lot and may travel a third of the length of the pool under water. Lower right, you can see that none of those diving have their legs together which I think would be the preferred method. Lower right and left, the swimmers are competing in a 100-metre race. They will turn at the far end of the pool and when they are close to finishing their 100-metres, the people you see sitting behind the stands will be standing waiting with their stop-watches to record the times. Each lane had three people taking the time and the three times were averaged out. Lower left, you can see two women with blue shirts and white hats. They are club officials making sure everyone starts in the correct manner. There is probably only one more swimming post to come and that will show some of my failures.