Straight arm recovery

After decades of "finger drag" drills to teach us how to keep elbows high during freestyle arm recovery ---- why do I see soon many olympian swimmers using straight arm recovery?? What do they know that I an unaware of?
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  • you didnt pay attention for decades either then. this little girl...you may have heard of her...janet evans...pretty much did a straight arm recover to set several world record and win a few gold medals...back in 1988 and before. so yeah...3 decades. hardly new hardly innovative cesar did not do it and he's still got the WR so...big deal 1 stroke is not the be all end all for everone
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  • you didnt pay attention for decades either then. this little girl...you may have heard of her...janet evans...pretty much did a straight arm recover to set several world record and win a few gold medals...back in 1988 and before. so yeah...3 decades. hardly new hardly innovative cesar did not do it and he's still got the WR so...big deal 1 stroke is not the be all end all for everone
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