SwimNews.com - Paris Open Not For Everyone

[Chris]

The European event that will bridge the gap between Melbourne 2007 and Beijing 2008 in August next year has already lost some of Europe's best swimmers to the Japan International

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[NotVeryFast]

I can never understand this idea that 50m races are more audience-friendly. I find them a bit frantic and you don't get much sense of aesthetics in how people swim. IMO swimming races need to be at least 200m in length before the strokes slow down enough to become enjoyable to watch.