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Faster, Higher, Stronger: Episode 4: Stories of the Olympic Games: Swimming

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Episode 4: Stories of the Olympic Games: Swimming

BBC Two - Faster, Higher, Stronger, Stories of the Olympic Games: Swimming

The history of swimming and its strokes, from its humble roots to the modern day.

Series exploring the history of the Olympics through the stories of athletes, here looking at the evolution of swimming and the development of its four different strokes.

This series telling the history of the Olympics takes to the water to explore how swimmers have swum faster and faster to win gold.

From its earliest beginnings in chilly waterways open to the elements, the Olympic swimming competition has driven the development of technique in all the four strokes.

Faster, Higher, Stronger reveals how the front crawl first evolved in Australia after a Solomon Islander introduced the stroke from the rough seas of the Pacific. How the butterfly grew out of the breaststroke, but only after swimmers began swimming the older, more sedate stroke with a double over-arm action to go faster. 

Combining cutting-edge filming techniques to analyse performance, period reconstruction and unique archive footage from the very earliest Olympics onwards, the programme includes interviews with great Olympic champions such as Mark Spitz, Dawn Fraser and Ian Thorpe, as well as contributions from British medal winners Sharron Davies, David Wilkie and Adrian Moorhouse.

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BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Stories of extraordinary athletes who have pushed performance to the limit and beyond

Stories of extraordinary athletes who have pushed performance to the limit and beyond in pursuit of gold, over more than a 100 years of Olympic competition

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