The butterfly technique initially developed from breaststroke, when swimmers would recover their arms above the water instead of beneath it. Butterfly became an independent stroke and made its Olympic ...

Butterfly is a difficult stroke to swim as it needs both stamina and style. The movements you need to make, however, are not difficult because you will have done many of them before in other strokes.

“Ahmed had performed double-arm butterfly, and so I can’t understand why that rule seems to have been in breach,” she added. ...

Both swimmers surpassed the standard of 57.34 set by the Japan Swimming Federation for sending athletes to the Paris Games. Ikee competed in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro ...