Why does freestyle swimming use infrequent kicks?

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I could have sworn freestyle swimming styles looked different in Olympics in the ‘90s. It looks like now freestyle is mostly upper body with fewer kicks. Why is this? Why the change?

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Freestyle is a category where swimmers typically choose to swim the front crawl. Legs are generally really inefficient for swimming the crawl.

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