Swimming treated unfairly compared to Track & Field
Former Member
We have had this discussion before, but I've been watching US Trials in Track and getting indignant all over again over 3 competitors qualifying for Olys in Track compared to Swimming. Yes, I know the history of the limitation to 2 in Swimming, but the world has changed and there are certainly other countries that could send 3 world class competitors...anyway, compared to Track, we as a sport, are getting jobbed!
Ahh Yes ----- Then there is Gymnastics where you can do well & win events and the Queen & her henchwomen go into the back room to figure out who THEY want on the team!!!!
Jazz is still just jazzed that the big boys stole his boy-thunder in Greensboro and made his swim so hard that he threw out his arm like a loaf of moldy bread.
That is not the exact simile I would have chosen, but yes.
What is it about swimming that allows the top swimmers to excel in multiple events/strokes? Spitz, Lochte, Phelps, Franklin, etc..
Is it a lack of competition on a grand scale that doesn't neccessitate the need to completely specialize?
