By the way, the best part of that article is the comments about open water, adding in a 5k time trial. that certainly takes away the pack swimming portion and is 100% individual effort and strategery.
-jeff
One way for the 50s to be included in the olympics is to have a non-medal exhibition day half-way into Track/Gymnastics week when the TV is boring anyway... contest the non-free 50s and do some mixed relays, no medals, all for the fans. If the crowds come, the swimmers have a great time and officials like it, maybe make it a real thing.
European Championships are adding mixed relays in 2014.
swimswam.com/.../
European Championships are adding mixed relays in 2014.
swimswam.com/.../
Woohoo :banana::banana::banana::banana: Actually,what would be really great would be if they let each team/country enter 2 relays in the MR,that way all the best stroke swimmers would get to swim and the "B" relay,which would have the best swimmers of their gender for each stroke,would be really motivated to knock off the "A" team.
