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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A sort of aside, “freestyle” is not a stroke. Freestyle just means you can swim however you want in order to win. The stroke is called the front crawl and is used almost exclusively because it’s the fastest. There have been some changes in how people do that stroke based on new information about efficiency.
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