How come swimmers have so many competitions to win medals? Relays, 200m, 500m, different strokes, etc

How come swimmers have so many competitions to win medals? Relays, 200m, 500m, different strokes, etc.
Basketball on the other hand only have 1 medal to give out. They could do shits like 21, 3 point shooting, etc.
Bad example but you get where im getting at. Serious question.

Why not

I dont really know desu

Why do runners get so many events?

unfortunately there's no sniper and bazooka shooting my dear amerigun

Why are there so many strokes? Why not just use the fastest one (freestyle)?

This would be like having a track event where people run backwards or by skipping

Swimming and running are races. Basketball is not, it doesn't lend itself to multiple events. Also there is very few athletes like Phelps that can win so many distances and strokes, usually different people win because despite this boards opinion, they are all very different events suited to different people

hurdles
steeplechase

>They could do shits like 21, 3 point shooting, etc.

H O R S E

next thing you know, there will be a walking event. or one where they put hurdles or other obstacles in the way while people run. or ones where you have to throw different types of objects as far as possible.

How else are you going to hoard useless medals?

Or if people ran jumping through obstacles, or ran and then jumped to see who goes farther, etc right?

I'd be careful when you only have medals in shooting.

It would be like Lebron getting a medal in every position. Since he is so great, this is possible. But that doesn't take away from the difficulty.

A lot of people train their whole lives to swim one event in the Oympics, the majority no doubt.

The strokes use very different muscle groups, being good at more than one at that level takes freak talent.

How else are you going to pad the medal number?

Oh right, theres still niggers in track n field.

Maybe your swimmers should get good?

because americans are good at swimming and they control everything so they decided they needed to have the most medals. that's it. there's no other reason for swimming to have more than 1 medal

Aww, Stephanos is a little salty

becausethe olympics aren't meant to be treated as one grand event

whole thing is shit anyways

In the Rio olympics there is tho

its literally barely different from track. why don't people complain about how many different track events there are?

They can't. Canadians are literally inferior

This, and also a swim meet would be quite boring if they got in and raced for 2 minutes and it was over. In order for them to have an event worth promoting and organizing there has to be more to it than just a couple of races.

These all exist already.

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>being this new

Football should have medals for competitions of bobinho, altinha, toquinho, embaixadas, free kick shooting, penalty shots and gol a gol.

Swimming has multiple events to make it interesting. One 2 minute relay would be a fucking waste of time. Not to mention it's one of the most popular events there so of course they would extend it however they can.

Because guys like Bolt are too shit to train for multiple events and instead complain about Phelps getting so much attention for dominating the Olympics.

If you beat your opponents, they win

Well they already have diving

I think there shouldn't be so many running or swimming events. There should be a fucking slam dunk contest and a 3 Point contest. There should be an Olympics All-Star Saturday Night. How do you justify that many medals for those fuckers but the basketball players and soccer players only get one chance to win gold?

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This. What is the usefulness of those other strokes? Why were originally created for in the first place?

It's based on sea physics and different animal particles

Because altheticism isn't necessarily about efficiency.

Can everyone stop being assblasted about phelps winning now?