I guess this applies to many different sports but it seems even more obvious in swimming. Why bother with imposing styles or technique if the only goal is to go as fast as possible?
Like with the high jump. The way people do it now is more efficient than the way they did it a hundred years ago so athletes adapted, they didn’t create categories to keep the older technique relevant. What am I missing?
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The goal is not always to go as fast as possible. The goal is to go as fast as possible with certain restriction. Some strokes are harder than others, so the goal is go fast while using a difficult stroke.
It’s the same reason why runners have hurdles, or sailboats don’t have engines. You mention the high jump, but even that jump is limited because you can jump much higher using a pole in the pole vault.
That being said, there is the freestyle competition, where you can use whatever style you want to go as fast as possible.
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