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Words
- Artistic swimming
- Routine
- Technical routine
- Free routine
- Acrobatic routine
- Figures
- Events
- Duet
- Team
- Free combination
- Reserve
- Element
- Time limit
- Technical required elements
- Hybrid
- Acrobatic
- Transitions
- Coach card
- Deck work
- Elements score
- Artistic impression
- Degree of difficulty
- Judges' panels
- Execution
- Choreography and musicality
- Performance
- Base mark
- Score scale
- Tie-break
- Synchronisation error
- Use of the bottom
- Routine penalties
- Technical controllers
- Referee
- Competition pool
- Springboard
- Platform
- Degree of difficulty
- Entry
- Dive positions
- Twist
- Dive number
- Dive groups
- Competition format
- Judges' awards
- Award scale
- Failed dive
- Restart
- Statement of dives
- Unsafe dive
- Mixed team event
- Running and standing dive
- Direct line of flight
- Reverse dive
- Inward dive
- Armstand dive
- Synchronised diving
- Rip entry
- Pool
- Lane
- Heat
- Stroke
- Length
- Split
- PB
- Freestyle
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly
- Individual medley
- Medley relay
- Dive start
- False start
- Flip turn
- Open turn
- Streamline
- Touch
- Relay
- Split time
- Lane assignment
- Open water swimming
- Semi-final and final
- Direct final
- Seeded heats
- DQ
- Swim-off
- Mixed relay
- Take your marks
- Referee and starter
- Judges of stroke and inspectors of turns
- Automatic officiating equipment
- Pacemaking
- Open water flags
- 15-metre mark
- Open water time limit and transponders
- Catch phase
- Bilateral breathing
- Underwater dolphin kick
- Pace clock
- Taper
- Negative split
- Water polo
- Period
- Possession clock
- Timeout
- Penalty shoot-out
- Field of play
- Goal
- 6 metre area
- 2 metre area
- Exclusion re-entry area
- Flying substitution area
- Team
- Goalkeeper
- Cap
- Substitution
- Referees
- Video assistant referee
- Start of a period
- Goal scored
- Free throw
- Goal throw
- Corner throw
- Penalty throw
- Neutral throw
- Ordinary foul
- Exclusion foul
- Exclusion
- Penalty foul
- Tactical foul
- Violent action
- Simultaneous exclusion
- Simulation
- Personal foul
- Yellow card and red card
- Misconduct
- Counterattack
- Extra-man
- Eggbeater
- Centre forward
- Driver
- Press
Rules
- What are the events in artistic swimming, and can men compete?
- What is the difference between a technical routine and a free routine?
- How many swimmers are in an artistic swimming team, and can a reserve be swapped in?
- How long is an artistic swimming routine, and what happens if it runs over?
- Can artistic swimmers hear the music under water?
- Why do artistic swimmers not wear goggles?
- How deep is an artistic swimming pool?
- What are figures in artistic swimming, and who still performs them?
- How is artistic swimming scored?
- What is a base mark in artistic swimming, and why does it sink a routine's score?
- What happens if a team gets a required element wrong in a technical routine?
- How are swimmers who are out of time with each other penalised?
- Can artistic swimmers touch the bottom of the pool?
- Who reaches the final in artistic swimming, and who swims last?
- How is the winner decided when an event has more than one routine?
- Who is in charge of an artistic swimming competition, and what gets a routine disqualified?
- What are the diving events, and how is a competition won?
- What do the numbers and letters of a dive mean?
- How is the difficulty of a dive worked out?
- How do the judges' marks become a score?
- How may a dive begin?
- What makes a take-off legal?
- What must a dive look like in the air?
- What makes a good entry into the water?
- When does a dive score zero?
- What happens if a diver stops and starts again?
- What happens when a diver nearly hits the board?
- Which dives must a diver perform, and can the list be changed?
- How does a diver reach the final, and who dives last?
- How is synchronised diving judged?
- How does the diving team event work?
- What does the referee control during a diving competition?
- What happens when divers tie, when a competition is stopped or when a mark is disputed?
- What is marathon swimming, and how is it won?
- How does an open water race start?
- What must a swimmer do to stay on the course?
- What do the yellow and red flags mean in open water swimming?
- May a swimmer stand up or hold on to something during the race?
- Can a swimmer draft behind another swimmer or a boat?
- How do swimmers eat and drink during the race?
- How does an open water race finish?
- How is an open water race timed?
- How long may a swimmer take to finish?
- What happens if a race has to be stopped?
- How warm or cold may the water be, and when are wetsuits worn?
- What may an open water swimmer wear and carry?
- How does the open water mixed relay work?
- What is the 3 km knockout sprint?
- Who runs an open water race, and how is a decision challenged?
- What are the backstroke races, and what are the rules?
- How far may a backstroker roll?
- How does a backstroke race start?
- How far may a swimmer travel under water?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- How may a backstroker turn?
- How must a backstroker touch at the finish?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- What are the breaststroke races, and what are the rules?
- What makes a breaststroke stroke legal?
- What may a breaststroker do under water after the dive and each turn?
- How does a swimming race start?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- How must a breaststroker touch the wall?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- What are the butterfly races, and what are the rules?
- What makes a butterfly stroke legal?
- How far may a swimmer travel under water?
- How does a swimming race start?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- How must a butterfly swimmer touch the wall?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- What are the freestyle races, and what are the rules?
- Does a freestyle swimmer have to swim front crawl?
- How far may a swimmer travel under water?
- How does a swimming race start?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- What must a freestyle swimmer do at the wall?
- How do swimmers know how far they have left in a long race?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- What is the individual medley, and in what order are the strokes swum?
- How must a medley swimmer finish one stroke and begin the next?
- What may a swimmer do in the freestyle part of a medley?
- How far may a swimmer travel under water?
- How does a swimming race start?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- What are the swimming relays, and how do they work?
- When may the next relay swimmer leave the platform?
- Who may swim in a relay, and can the team be changed?
- In what order are the strokes swum in a medley relay?
- What may a swimmer do in the freestyle part of a medley?
- How does a swimming race start?
- What happens when a swimmer goes before the signal?
- What may a swimmer not do during a race?
- How are swimming races timed, and what if two swimmers record the same time?
- How does a swimmer get from the heats to the final?
- Who swims in which lane?
- What happens when two swimmers tie for the last place in the next round?
- Who disqualifies a swimmer, and can it be challenged?
- What may a swimmer wear in a race?
- What does a swim need to count as a world record?
- What are the measurements of a competition pool?
- How big is a water polo pool, and can the players touch the bottom?
- How many players are in a water polo team, and what do the cap colours mean?
- How do water polo players swap in and out while the game is going on?
- How long is a water polo match?
- How long can a water polo team keep the ball before it has to shoot?
- How many timeouts does a water polo team get, and who can call one?
- How does a water polo period start, and what happens after a goal?
- When does a goal count in water polo, and can you score with any part of the body?
- What happens if a water polo match ends level?
- What are the everyday fouls in water polo, and what do they cost?
- Is there an offside rule in water polo?
- Why do water polo players keep getting sent to the corner?
- What gets a water polo player thrown out of the game for good?
- When does a foul become a penalty in water polo?
- How many fouls can a water polo player have before they are out?
- What happens after the whistle for a foul in water polo?
- Who gets the ball when it goes out behind the goal in water polo?
- What does the referee do when nobody is entitled to the ball?
- How is a penalty taken in water polo?
- Why does a water polo referee sometimes see a foul and not blow the whistle?
- What can be checked on video in water polo, and can a coach ask for it?
- What happens when a water polo player is hurt or bleeding?