You don't get swum over unless you're a slow BBOPer that gets taken over by a fast wave. Read my post above to see how it can happen easily in a scrum, and how I've been on both the giving and receiving end of it, despite never, in my wildest dreams, ever imaging I would ever swim over someone.

And sure, if I swim over someone accidentally as the situation above, I do expect to get punched back. BUT - if I'm the one swum over, I do NOT punch back. Sorry, that's also just a d*k move. People aren't trying to drown you in triathlon - you just got stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time as a slow swimmer if you got swum over. I literaly had to just streamline and lie still while like 10+ women in a row swam right on top of me when i sucked at swimming. I can guarantee that zero of them intended to do that, and all of the would have steered clear if they had a chance of seeing me (they were in a fast swim draft line.) And I was all alone when it started (got dropped cold by my wave), so it even happens when the lead swimmer is a good swimmer and there is plenty of room - turns out that buoy line is a popular line!

If it were a pack of testosterony dudes, I might have said "overcompetitive jerks from testosterone", but I can guarantee that if 10 women swam over me, it was NOT because they were out to kill me.

Either way, I still think it's a total lame move to think you can kick someone off your feet. I will bet odds are farrrr higher that what you think is a controlled, non-injurious kick, would feel like a devastating shot to the head or arm if you were receiving your own kick in the frenzy of a packed race situation.

You can be maxi competitive while still be considerate to the folks around you.

You don't get swum over unless you're a slow BBOPer that gets taken over by a fast wave. Read my post above to see how it can happen easily in a scrum, and how I've been on both the giving and receiving end of it, despite never, in my wildest dreams, ever imaging I would ever swim over someone.
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You can be maxi competitive while still be considerate to the folks around you.

Perp wasn't boxed in. Either panicked and breast stroke kicked or was intentional. I swim alot done lots of tris ,>100. gotten kicked before. Never this hard and never with this much intention. I've moved on to acceptance until I have to laugh cough or lay down...🤢

I understand everytime I breathe move or attempt to lie down. Stuff happens moving on....