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Re:Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it be... by sandworm101 on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:10AM (#28112924)
Swimming rules have also been progressively eased to help keep the records falling. Flip turns in backstroke. Relay dives. More aggressive dive blocks. The new breaststroke kick. Lots of little thing mean constant trend, constant records dropping.
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Re:Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it be... by nl on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:59AM (#28113445)
But restrictions on swimsuit material have gone the other way. There were a bunch of records set using non-permeable suits in 2008-2009 that will take year to break again after FINA introduced the "textile material" rule.

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Re:Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it be... by sandworm101 on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:58AM (#28116900)
One of perhaps a dozen rules. The one rule that was tightened in a sea of rules being loosened.
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Re:Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it be... by nl on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:53AM (#28117681)
Restricting underwater distance in butterfly was one that slowed swimmers a lot.
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