Why are there so many swimming events?

Why are there so many swimming events?

Because Faggots like swimming.

4 different strokes, different race distances, and relays. It's not hard to understand, bro.

Why not just merge all this shit?
It's just a meme spam of medals for the swimmers.

So you want to merge all running based track and field events into one medal? Its the same thing as all the events for swimming.

tfw no doggy paddle event

so americans can pad their medal count like leafs do with skiing in the winter games

>canada
>good at skiing

wew
canada is fucking terrible at skiing

For most swimmers they best they can hope to medal in is 2, maybe 3 events. If you are a freak and do all 4 strokes at competition level then congrats to you, but I can tell you as a university level swimmer we specialize. All of us train 1 stroke to the best of our ability. That means for most of us our best hope is 2 different distances (if lucky) in that one stroke and a relay.

Lol. No one would care about the number of swimming events if Americans didn't dominate them.

IOC, a YUROPOOR governing body, set all this up. We just come in and dominate.

Swimming has the highest medal haul. Has for a long time, so if other countries want to clean up there, get fuckin' better.

>but I can tell you as a university level swimmer we specialize. All of us train 1 stroke to the best of our ability.

Sounds like Canada. US swimmers train every stroke which is why Phelps has all those medals. Idolize Phelps. Fear him. Worship him. Train all strokes and maybe you'll dethrone him.

How about making individual competitions for football and basketball based on habilities.
10m freekick
20m freekick

There should only be freestyle swimming. Anything else is a dumb meme. Equivalent to getting a gold medal in skipping for 100 meters the fastest.

put your trip back on kippers youre not fooling anyone

>no ball
>no sport

Race walking, hurdles, sprinting, long distance running...

Why not just have sprinting, it's the fastest.

Ur an idiot

What university u at?

you are wrong.

This wouldn't be an issue if the US didn't dominate at swimming. Go do bed crybaby.

I would not complain if race walking was removed. It's just as dumb.

Hurdling tests a different from of athleticism than just running in a way that the different forms of swimming do not.

I'm fine with short and long swimming races. But they should all be freestyle.

>Hurdling tests a different from of athleticism than just running in a way that the different forms of swimming do not.

t. never athlete

With all the refugees that come through the Mediterranean, you'd think the Syrian Team would be the goat swim team

Because they get good TV ratings, ya dingus

Neither were you. Or maybe you were. Maybe I was. It's a dumb thing to argue on an anonymous board and you are dumb for making it.

>leafs do with skiing in the winter games
nice quads, but maybe you should check what you're typing before you put it out there.

Check our medal total re: skiing

We are good at freeskiing, which I hope will never be in the Olympics. pic related

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So Australia can get to shitpost