There are many sports involving swimming in water, such as tradittional Swimming (competition among participants to be fastest over a given distance), Diving, Water Polo. Some of these has been in the most or even in every Summer Olympics so far.
Swimming girls are very athletic and elegant, since swimming is known as one of the best aerobic exercises in the world.
Katie Hoff is an American swimmer. Her full name is Katherine.
She is a very capable and universal swimming girl, competeting in all distances between 200m and 800m freestyle.
Katie Hoff was the youngest athlete in the US team during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. At Beijing 2008 Olympics the 19 years old Hoff won 3 medals.
The Family picture ;) Katie Hoff, Caroline Burckle, Alisson Schmitt & Natalie Coughlin:
Some more pictures of Katie Hoff with her friend Natalie Coughlin
Bia and Branca Feres are identical twin sisters from Brazil who competed as synchronized swimmers in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Apart from swimming, the twins are also models and have been nominated as one of the hottest Olympians ever.
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Federica Pellegrini is an Italian swimmer, born 1988.
She have several world records under her name, excluding two from the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008, where she won the gold in 200m freestyle swimming.
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Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova are the queens of synchronized swimming. They’re from Russia and have just won their second Olympic gold medal in Beijing 2008 (they were first in 2004 Olympics as well).
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