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Originally Posted by octothorp
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.
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I just looked it up and was amazed to see 16 events for swimming. This is ridiculous. All you need is a short and a long for each style, say 200 and 1500. If a swimmer can win over 50 there is a good chance he can do the 100, 200, and 400 fairly easily as well.