Lets get it out there. Who thought, "Impossible."
I do.
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I don’t think in the history of Olympic or international competition has the winning female swimmer ever swum faster than the winning male swimmer in the last 50 in a comparative race.
That alone is not enough to suspect her. Records are broken all the time.
One thing missing from this thread (I think, unless I missed it) is the unusual way she swam the IM, particularly her back-*** turn and her lack of a breaststroke pulldown. One hypothesis is that she saved more for the 100 free than others. In other words, perhaps she simply swam smarter.
I don’t think in the history of Olympic or international competition has the winning female swimmer ever swum faster than the winning male swimmer in the last 50 in a comparative race.
That alone is not enough to suspect her. Records are broken all the time.
One thing missing from this thread (I think, unless I missed it) is the unusual way she swam the IM, particularly her back-*** turn and her lack of a breaststroke pulldown. One hypothesis is that she saved more for the 100 free than others. In other words, perhaps she simply swam smarter.
