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
Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre race in a magnificent fashion, Guam's 16-year-old teen Benjamin Schulte, dubbed as "Benny the Bream" by the crowd, fought off audaciously throughout the open-water course to round out the field with a twenty-fifth place time in 2:03:35.1. The men's 10 km open water marathon at the 2012 Olympics featured a field of 25 swimmers: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre The men's marathon swim over a distance of 10 kilometres at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on 10 August in the Serpentine at Hyde Park. Outclassing a vast field of rivals, Tunisia's