I think you miss the point. Running as fast as you can over various distances is sane, but running in a peculiar way which is slower as an event is daft. Yet in swimming you have a race over 200m freestyle, which is sane, and butterfly, breast stroke and backstroke which is slower and insane.

Triple jump yes I agree is stupid, at school we called it hop skip and jump which puts it in context. But high jump and long jump, who can jump the furthest and the highest, that is what the Olympics is all about, that is sport at its purest.

I have nothing against freestyle swimming, nothing against swimming as fast as you can. I only think swimming in stupid slower styles should be abolished.