Why does swimming have some many more events at the Olympics than other sports?

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It seems disproportionate to other sport, except maybe gymnastics. Some popular sports don’t even have any representation, like cricket or bowling or squash. How did swimming get so much representation?

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>there aren’t four different ways to run

I can conceive of world where skipping, galloping, and race-walking are the 3 other ways to run and we have an event for each matching the distances of existing running events… it’s a very dumb world.

Artificially handicapping yourself in a race by imposing arbitrary style/form/movement limits seems foolish. Rather watch a greater variety of events.

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