2012 Olympics: Swimming

You can do all of the dolphin kicks you'd like--just sign up for any of the freestyle/butterfly/backstroke (on back) events. As long as you surface by the 15m mark there's absolutely nothing wrong. This is breaststroke--not butterfly. They really need to totally eliminate the fly and get back to real breaststroke. We're only talking about 3 events: the 50/100/200 breaststroke. You know, I agree - but is that only because I'm a breaststroker and not great at SDK? Do any backstrokers or freestylers out there think that 15 meters of dolphin kicking underwater has diluted their stroke at all (making true masters of free or back swimming less successful and those who SDK well more)? I've also wondered if Phelps would dominate as many strokes as he does without the his SDKs. Thoughts?

You can do all of the dolphin kicks you'd like--just sign up for any of the freestyle/butterfly/backstroke (on back) events. As long as you surface by the 15m mark there's absolutely nothing wrong. This is breaststroke--not butterfly. They really need to totally eliminate the fly and get back to real breaststroke. We're only talking about 3 events: the 50/100/200 breaststroke. You know, I agree - but is that only because I'm a breaststroker and not great at SDK? Do any backstrokers or freestylers out there think that 15 meters of dolphin kicking underwater has diluted their stroke at all (making true masters of free or back swimming less successful and those who SDK well more)? I've also wondered if Phelps would dominate as many strokes as he does without the his SDKs. Thoughts?