from the washington post version of this article, the winners are slower but everybody else is faster... >But the “slow pool” theory does not hold up as well w

from the washington post version of this article, the winners are slower but everybody else is faster... >But the “slow pool” theory does not hold up as well when one looks beyond the winning times. In fact, it appears a bit, ahem, shallow. >When you consider the times it has taken to earn a spot in the finals in Paris — which is to say, the eighth-place times from either preliminary heats (in events 400 meters or longer) or semifinals — those times have been faster than in Fukuoka in 10 of the 12 events and faster than in Tokyo in five of 12. In the women’s 400 free, for example, it took a time of 4 minutes 3.83 seconds to make it into the final, faster than in Fukuoka (4:04.98) or Tokyo (4:04.07). https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/07/30/paris-olympics-slow-swimming-pool/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/07/30/pa...