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Synchronised swimming has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1984, featuring both women's duet and team events.
This sentence misstates the Olympic event history. In 1984, Olympic artistic swimming had women's solo and duet events; the team event was introduced later, in 1996.
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World Aquatics' own Olympic-history pages contradict this wording. Their Paris 2024 qualification/confirmed-athletes pages state that artistic swimming became a full Olympic sport at Los Angeles 1984 with medals in Women's Duet and Women's Solo. They further state that Atlanta 1996 introduced the women's Team event, replacing the other two events, and that both Team and Duet have been on the programme only since Sydney 2000.
So the article's sentence is inaccurate because it implies that the Olympic programme has featured duet and team since 1984, when in fact:
- 1984, 1988, 1992: solo + duet
- 1996: team only
- 2000 onward: team + duet
A more accurate wording would be that synchronised/artistic swimming has been on the Olympic programme since 1984, but the event lineup changed over time.
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- Artistic Swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics | Qualified NOC Quota Positions
The Los Angeles 1984 Games... is when artistic swimming achieved full Olympic sport status, with medals awarded in the Women's Duet and Women's Solo events. The Atlanta 1996 Olympics saw the introduction of the women's Team event... Starting with Sydney 2000, both Team and Duet competitions have been part of the Olympic programme.
- Artistic Swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games | Confirmed Athletes
The Los Angeles 1984 Games... is when artistic swimming achieved full Olympic sport status, with medals awarded in the Women's Duet and Women's Solo events. The Atlanta 1996 Olympics saw the introduction of the women's Team event... Starting with Sydney 2000, both Team and Duet competitions have been part of the Olympic programme.
- Artistic Swimming Olympics | Australian Olympic Committee
The sport debuted with solo and duet events and remained like this for three Olympics (Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992) until they were replaced by an eight-woman team event in Atlanta 1996. Sydney 2000 saw the duet return to the Olympic program to join the team event.