Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Did A Current In The Rio Swimming Pool Give Some Swimmers An Unfair Advantage? 

Swimming, like most racing sports, is relatively simple. Competitors swim back and forth across a pool, for a set distance, using a set stroke. There are more technical skills needed to succeed in the pool than on the track, but hydrodynamic butterfly entry techniques aside, it's a straightforward sport, and determining the hierarchy in a given event is a matter of putting everyone in a pool and racing. Not much else, to the naked eye, goes into it.

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