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Most Prestigious Olympic Swimming Events?
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Date: August 4th, 2024 10:51 PM Author: Chrome hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47928955) |
Date: August 4th, 2024 10:53 PM Author: sable headpube Probably
1. 100 freestyle
2. 200 IM
3. 200 freestyle
4. 400 IM
5. 100 m butterfly |
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Date: August 4th, 2024 10:59 PM Author: buff lodge electric furnace this seems cr
maybe 100m butterfly above 400 IM bc butterfly is the most alpha of strokes |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:27 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon TINTCR 400 IM should be 2 after 100 free. 400 IM = “best swimmer in the world” since the 90s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930193) |
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Date: August 4th, 2024 11:36 PM Author: Chrome hell phelps never medaled in 100 free. did he even do it? why not?
why didnt phelps compete for breast and back? if he won IMs was he not good enough still? |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 12:47 AM Author: sable headpube Subject: e Based on wikipedia he swam twice at big meets and got 7th and 4th.
He held the national record for a whle based on his relay split (he led off).
My guess is if you asked him and his coaches, he could've been competitive in the 100 m but it wasn't his strongest event and he already had a pretty full program... |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 7:09 AM Author: Chrome hell the 200m free doesnt seem like his best event either. he only won it once. seems like he's better at fly and IM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929539) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:06 AM Author: Frisky carnelian menage mother He won 5 individual events in 2008. Spitz in 1972 and Marchand (this year) won 4. At a certain point your going to overextend yourself, especially since most people only do 1 or 2 individual events. The chinaman who set the world record in 100 free also swam 200 free but didn’t make it out of first round (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930070) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:33 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon 1) He was shitty af at breast this current French guy smoked his breast splits in 400 IM by 3+ seconds. 2) He was already doing a shitton of events and frequently had the situation where he had to swim prelims less than an hour after a final. So he prioritized his best events. 3) He was an OK backstroker but through most of his prime you had Piersol and Krayzelburg breaking WRs in 100 and 200, so in theory he could’ve prioritized backstroke if there weren’t better US backstrokers but US was dominant in the 00s and early 10s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930227) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:35 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon Same answer as why he didn’t do individual backstroke events. Lezak’s 100 split in 2008 is still the fastest 100 ever. We had faster guys. Also sprint freestyle is a much more fast twitch than 200 so you usually get sprint free style specialist who are world class at the 50 and 100 but don’t do anything else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930243) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:26 AM Author: Costumed Bawdyhouse why is there no 100 im
and why aren't the longer distances as prestigious? |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:46 AM Author: Lavender provocative old irish cottage native pool is 50m so u need at least 200m to complete 4 different strokes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930296) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:55 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard There is for SCY season. LCM is a 50m pool, so the shortest IM event at the olympics is 200.
The only long distance swims are free. If you look at the swimmers, they look more like long distance track bros than jacked alpha chads. |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 12:47 AM Author: flickering shrine Sailing Dressage
Everything else is prole |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 7:13 AM Author: Domesticated soggy voyeur 100m free has the most lay prestige but it's an inherently prole event.
probably the medley |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 7:25 AM Author: electric doctorate lol @ ‘prole’. You sound like the few who like watching 55 yr old German snobs winning ‘dressage’. |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 7:14 AM Author: electric doctorate Only freestyle of course. The other ‘styles’ are simply artificial and ridiculous. There are at least 3x too many swimming medals.
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:15 AM Author: Aromatic Sooty Fortuitous Meteor Sanctuary titcr. What the fuck is the butterfly? It looks ridiculous, is less efficient and fast than freestyle. Why would anyone ever choose to swim the butterfly when you had to get from point A to point B. At least the backstroke is a relaxing stroke that is a nice change of pace from freestyle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929652) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:22 AM Author: Razzle chad half-breed cr need to replace butterfly with the doggy paddle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929683) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:32 AM Author: Frisky carnelian menage mother Not flame butterfly was invented as way to “cheat legally” in breastroke (which is the OG “stroke”). So the fuddie duddies in charge of swimming gave them their own division so they keep swimming slowly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930224) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:34 AM Author: Frisky carnelian menage mother Also technically park speed is in the butterfly. They just have a slow down period unlike freestyle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930232) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:34 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard Also not flame: Sidestroke used to be an olympic sport. I believe it was introduced in 1900 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930233) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:17 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard 400 IM and 200 Fly separate the men from the boys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929666) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:18 AM Author: Aromatic Sooty Fortuitous Meteor Sanctuary See above-- butterfly is like if you had a track event where you had to bunny hop 100 meters. Dumb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929669) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 9:58 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard Sounds like you are mad that you could not successfully complete either of these events. Makes sense because they are designed for men who are in peak shape. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930032) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:37 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon I was a faggy breaststroker who got as far as a senior nationals qualifying time, and I readily admit that Butterfly is the most alpha stroke. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930253) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:41 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard No homo, I have huge respect for the breaststroke guys. That shit is so fucking technical.
I was a quiet nerdy kid who barely missed a futures cut for 1 and 2 Fly. Girls were throwing themselves on me and my massively oversized shoulders. |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:45 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon Breaststroke is all technique. It’s requires a bit of rhythm but it’s easily the most superstudystroke. Also selects for completely different muscles/flexibility, so you can’t be 6’ instead of 6’4” and still be world class. It’s hilarious to think about how much of that our brains processed as kids but didn’t directly call out and articulate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930292) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 8:21 AM Author: Costumed Bawdyhouse The # of medals count is so stupid because of swimming. How about we have 2 putting events at different distances, 2 driving events at different distances, 2 sand wedge events at different distances, then 3 different events that are each just 1 hole at different distances. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47929679) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 9:58 AM Author: flesh medicated regret gay wizard Yeah, it’s so fucking easy every poster should have a medal by now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930034) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:38 AM Author: dull curious brunch dragon lol is this also true of track that has 10 different distances? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930257) |
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Date: August 5th, 2024 10:39 AM Author: Chrome hell plus why have 10 events and a decathlon. get rid of most of them and just have a decathlon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569933&forum_id=2#47930263) |