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[edit] 1896
The 1896 events have full results on the main Swimming at the 1896 Summer Olympics page. I'll eventually break them off, but I'm finishing up my work on 1900 at the moment, so it may be a while. <hintmode>That is, unless someone beats me to it.</hintmode> -- Jonel | Speak 17:42, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Plunge for Distance
The event "Plunge for Distance" at the 1904 Olympics is classified in the IOC database as a diving event, not a swimming event. This seems reasonable to me -- also, it is mentioned in the article Diving at the 1904 Summer Olympics. I have therefore removed it from the Men's Events table here, and updated the 1904 total accordingly. OMHalck 22:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A few notes....
1. I've added notations on Olympic records that are also current world records. I've used the plus sign (+) mainly to avoid confusion since in the world records in swimming article, the asterisk (*) is used to indicate that record has not yet been updated on the FINA website (something that is quite irrelevant here). I don't think the maintenance added by this addition will be great.
2. I've also removed the wikilinks for the progression of records. Those links went to the progression of world record articles, and weren't for progression of Olympic records. The IOC has PDF's available at its website of Olympic record progressions, so if someone is bored, they can whip articles up based on those.
3. In a few locations, it's noted that the records were achieved in semifinals. These are the same notations from the world records article, so I'm going to dig through results to see if there are a few more. (later note: I've checked all of the records and added appropriate notations. 2004 & 2000 results are at omegatiming.com; earlier results can be found on the USA Swimming website) –Pakman044 19:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nations table...errors
1. New Zealand is recorded as having competitors at the 1896 and 1900 Games. No New Zealanders competed at any Games before 1908 in any sport. 2. Australia is noted as not being present in 1980. They were, and in fact won 2 Gold medals. DerbyCountyinNZ 05:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
1. I've added notations on Olympic records that are also current world records. I've used the plus sign (+) mainly to avoid confusion since in the world records in swimming article, the asterisk (*) is used to indicate that record has not yet been updated on the FINA website (something that is quite irrelevant here). I don't think the maintenance added by this addition will be great.
2. I've also removed the wikilinks for the progression of records. Those links went to the progression of world record articles, and weren't for progression of Olympic records. The IOC has PDF's available at its website of Olympic record progressions, so if someone is bored, they can whip articles up based on those.
3. In a few locations, it's noted that the records were achieved in semifinals. These are the same notations from the world records article, so I'm going to dig through results to see if there are a few more. (later note: I've checked all of the records and added appropriate notations. 2004 & 2000 results are at omegatiming.com; earlier results can be found on the USA Swimming website) –Pakman044 19:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nations table: another error
Hungary participated in the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, so Hungarian swimmers were not present in Los Angeles.
- To be honest, I question the utility of the nations table on this particular article. As with athletics, the list of participating nations is an almost complete subset of the list of nations of the Games as a whole. The current list is woefully incomplete, but if completed, it would have ~200 rows × 26 columns = ~5000 table cells! Do we really need that kind of all-time summary on this list? In my opinion, the list of participating nations on these "Sport at the Olympics" pages is most effective for the team sports, where only 8–12 teams qualify for the tournament each Games, for example. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:02, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
