Swimming: The art of the start and the turn
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The freestyle start consists of three phases - the block phase, the flight phase and the underwater phase.
Since it is a sport whose participants are half-submerged, so much of swimming is either unseen or not understood.
But as the Fina World Cup comes to town, The Straits Times decided to look deeper into the craft of swimmers.
