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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
I have a question about the swimming competitions. Do they deliberately place the highest-ranked swimmers in the middle lanes? Every Olympics I can remember, swimmers in the middle three lanes or so have been the winners. It seems there's always that distinctive V-shape during the race, like a flock of birds. I don't know, maybe it's just my imagination.
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someone else already pointed out that they put them out in the middle to minimize disturbances, but the put the fastest next to each other so that they race their fastest possible race. human nature causes one to only swim, walk, run, drive as fast as necessary to win. if the person in the lead can't see who may be in second they won't swim as fast.
i wrote that really poorly, but i think you get the point.