Swimming WAY more exciting than track at the olympics

C'mon, Kara gets excited too talking about distance races. 😂😂😂

Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines have been doing the NBC swimming coverage for over 30 years and they have a good synergy from doing the coverage for so long-I just don't see it as well with Diffey and Goucher in track; Swimming has done well with marketing-ie. putting the trials in Lucas Oil Stadium was a great idea; Track and field still great to watch but they could take a few tips from swimming for marketing the sport...

I only like to watch the open water swimming.

biggest beef with swimming is all the strokes. the butterfly? that's a joke, nobody would ever use that motion except in a swimming competition. the backstroke is what you do while youre fkkking around in the pool holding a beer..

swimming should be freestyle and breast stroke and thts it.

There literally shouldn't be any stroke. Swim however you swim fastest. Swimming is stupid. Imagine if running had the "single leg hop 100-400" and the "backwards single leg hope 100-400" and then multiply to all the relays. Just a dumb concept.

They can see to the side they are taking their breaths but totally agree running is better.

No- track is better.

Swimming has less time between events because every event starts in the same place, there are no hurdles or steeplechase in swimming, no real field events in swimming (diving sort of is) and winners do not take victory laps around the pool.

Track also has field events which sometimes slow action on the track itself. Track has multi event competitions like the decathlon of which there is no equivalent in swimming.

The various events in track have roots in real life situations and that adds interest and diversity to the sport.

Both track and swimming have issues with their different and non-standard methods of movement. In track there is race walking, and in swimming you have the three other strokes aside from freestyle. The events that constrain movement are less popular.

If track was like swimming there would be a full slate of distances for racewalking, along with one-legged and crawling on hands and knees races too.

100% agree, swimming is like the sprint events where they attack from the gun/beep.

read some of comments about the tactics, I can only assume you mean middle and long distance. lol tactics, 1500m jog round and then see who has the quickest 200m time, or for 5000/10000 jog round and see who is the best failed 1500m runner. Not very exciting, time trial please, only the beta runners jog and kick .

The human body ranks just above elephants for swimming efficiency.

SwimmIng needs to have freestyle as the main event. All of these extra events are one reason why it’s not taken as seriously

People take it way more seriously than any running events over 400m

They just can't sit back and kick like track. Maybe track will be amazing if there was a partition among the lanes and the athletes don't see each other 🤣

Mods can we please remove this very obvious propaganda

Running is a fun sport to do provided your on trails in the woods. Running on the road is terribly boring to watch or participate in and running on the track a complete waste of time. I don't know why anyone in their right mind watches people run around in circles.

No they don’t. Swimming is either about freestyle sprints or medal collections. Phelps got famous from medal collections. If swimming was like track and field , Phelps would have been the equivalent of an 800 Gold medalist and a 4x400 Gold medalist. Still a fantastic athlete but not some superhero 8 time Gold medalist like in 2008

Is there a swimming version of let’s run? is it overrun by right wing grievances and whining?

If there were hurdles in swimming, it would make it more interesting!

I’m obviously way biased by my personal interest and experience, but swimming seems so boring to me compared with track racing. So often the top 3 have gradually emerged by halfway and you can tell that there will be no change in order by the end of the race. In addition to that, the whole race is in lanes and you can hardly see the athletes as individuals since they’re wearing swim caps and submerged in water.