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| | INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS |
 | | Prior to the London Olympics, where a 100m pool was used, the ocean (1896), the River Seine (1900), and a little lake in St. Louis, USA (1904), had been used as Olympic sites. |
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Priority decisions or goals were clear: to standardise the rules for swimming, diving and water polo; to obtain control of world records and to maintain an up-to-date list of these records; and finally, to ensure the direction of Olympic Games competitions for swimming, diving and water polo. |
 | | Discover the sport through its competition format, equipment, glossary and history. |
| www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=AQ (204 words) |
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