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why not just ride the road race on a tt bike as they're clearly faster? why not have gears on the track as it's clearly faster? Sports are just a collection of arbitrary rules really
(clearly just being devils advocate here. I agree with you entirely, swimming is nonsense)
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Spinacci bars already had riders doing that until they were banned for safety.
But you're still basically proving my point - if swimming has breaststroke and butterfly and backstroke, all inferior to freestyle, why not have a whole separate "road bikes" category on the track? Why not race HPVs around the track and ditch those slow track bikes? We don't have 4000 categories of "riding around a track" because it's dumb.
Why did track lose the IP and yet swimming continues to have stupid events? It's not like they need the velodrome for other events during the games.
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You wouldn't be faster with gears on the track, but I know what you mean.
hippy
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Once again missing the point that they're team events and individual events and they're not events done with one-armed tied behind a back or a match sprint ridden backwards.
Why have 3 swimming strokes that are slower than the Aussie Crawl? Having solo and team versions and different lengths of of Freestyle swimming is fine. Having some random different version of arm flailing x all those all over again is dumb.