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Originally Posted by mmanzz
There was chatter back a few pages about new swimming events and so on. The fact is that butterfly is not really a new event, it was called the breaststroke up till the 1956 Olympics. By 1952 the event known as the breaststroke were using the butterfly technique as it fit into the rules definition at the time.
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See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You've got one event: the breaststroke. Many of the swimmers adapt the breaststroke into the butterfly, which is a faster stroke, and technically fits the rules of breaststroke at the time. So why not just leave it at that? No, instead they create two seperate events: one for this new stroke, and one for the old breast stroke which nobody was swimming because it was so much slower. Why not just let the old stroke die, since a new, faster stroke evolved?