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Originally Posted by troutman
Too many medals are given out in swimming. A hockey player can win one medal after playing about 6 60 minute hockey games. A swimmer can win 8 medals for swimming 4 lengths of the pool 8 times. Too many events. Same for gymnastics and track.
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I've always said the same thing, but I think that swimming is way worse than track. It would be like having different track events for running with your arms spread wide, or running backwards, etc. Any of these would be silly, of course, because you'd obviously go slower. So why do we care abouting swimming techniques that are always slower? There should be medals for freestyle 100, 200, 400, 1600, and 100 and 400 relay.