Sports Report: 12 Reasons to Love Swimming

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1 Swimming Is as Old as the Stone Age An ancient mosaic of a swimmer in Rome People have been swimming for thousands of years Swimmers are shown in cave paintings from the Stone Age that were discovered in Libya and Egypt The great thinker Plato said that people who couldn’t swim were uneducated And swimming races were held in Japan as far back as the first century Swimming was also a skill in ancient Greece and Rome Young men were taught to swim as part of their education and military training 4 Swimming was a good skill for soldiers to have since many battles were fought in or near water So many soldiers drowned during the Napoleonic