Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre require different tactics and showcase several different racing strategies that are more common to competitive cycling, marathon running and water polo than traditional pool swimming. It is one of the few Olympic sports where the athlete's coaches play a critical role during the actual event. The coaches have four opportunities to provide drinks to their athletes as the athletes swim by floating pontoons in the course. If the coach falls in the water, his or her athlete is immediately disqualified. Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre The men's marathon 10 kilometre event at the 2008
Singapore Swimming Association 2005 held in June, which incorporated international competition format. This meant heats were swam in the morning, evening finals sessions, dope testing, etc. 2006: Singapore hosted its first major regional swimming competition with the Milo 7th Asia Swimming Championships Singapore 2006 in March. In the same year on the FINA front, SSA won the right to host the FINA Swimming World Cup Series 2007-2009 (April). SSA also hosted two FINA events: the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup 2006 and the FINA 7th World Swimming Officials Seminar Singapore 2006 (October). The latter event saw over 100 officials from nearly 50 different