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Originally Posted by Regorium
While I agree that it's extremely difficult, it still makes no sense. It's like hurdles vs. Speedwalking vs. Running forwards vs. Running backwards and sideways and crab walk and any other variation of running you can think of. I think only freestyle should exist, and you do whatever stroke gets you there fastest (generally front crawl).
Basically I think the sport distills to "I need to traverse a distance in a medium. Who is fastest at this?" There is basically no real world situation where butterfly is useful so not sure why it has to be a sport.
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If that's the standard say good by to most of the events.
Soccer, basketball, pole vault, high jump, all throwing but Javilin, most swimming, most athletics. All of the horse stuff, diving, track cycling, bmx, gymnastics, trampoline, tennis, table tennis, etc.
I think your left with the 100m, the marathon, the 100m freestyle and the 10k swim, all the fighting and all the shooting and maybe the long bike races. Sounds like a pretty boring 10 event Olympics