Aquatic is a combination of 4 sports, Diving, Water polo, Synchronized- swimming, and Swimming. Synchronized swimming is a sport for women only in where the participants dance in the water as a pair or part of the team. Diving has several events including the 10m platform diving for men and women, 3m springboard diving for men and women and many different kinds of dives. The divers win by the score the judge give. Water Polo is a water sport in where participants use hand to play ball in the swimming pool. There are six players on each side and one goal keeper. They are not allowed to touch the bottom of the pool at any time and participants have 35 seconds to score a goal. If they are not successful the defense will get the ball. There are 4 quarters in a game where each quarters consist of seven minutes long. The winner is the team that scores the most goals. Olympics Swimming has 26 individual events for consist of both male and female. There are events like backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle and so on for the team events. Swimming was included in 1896 followed by water polo in 1900, diving in 1904, and Synchronized swimming in 1984.

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