By: Shirley Huang

There are a lot of great sports in the Olympics, but my favorite is swimming. In the Olympics, there are 35 events where you can swim: 17 for men, 17 for women and one mixed event, which is also the newest mixed event, called the 4x100m mixed medley relay. It offers plenty of excitement, with 2 men and 2 women teams trying to race to the gold!

Swimming is also really exciting to watch. People always try to do their best to win medals. It isn’t just a test about the speed of swimming, you also have to know how to do those cool backflips and dive really far! It also has a bunch of surprises. In the Olympics 2024, two people both won silver!

Swimming has some people with a bunch of medals in their hands. When he finished his career, American swimmer Micheal Phelps had 28 total medals, with 23 of them gold! When he earned his 19th Olympics medal on July, 32st, 2012, at the Summer Olympics in London, he became the most decorated Olympian of all time! And he is still that! That’s really cool.

The Olympic swimming event is great! It is full of surprises, hard working people, and medals trying to be earned! I wish I was really good at swimming so I could win some medals and get a close view of an exciting sport’s events! Yay!