Do we not like him? I like him.

He doesn’t owe us shit, and maybe, just maybe, he’s not trying to be the most popular person in the world.

Fascinating: thank you! I had no idea that any gender differences existed in swimming strokes.

my husband was a swimmer and explained it the exact same way when i questioned the commentator (the sexist remarks have been off the chain this olympics). i played softball and it is the same kind of thing where women are taught to bat differently than men because their power is typically in their lower body, not the…

It took years to figure out what my issue was, but it turns out I was using more masculine stroke mechanics without the power and physicality to pull them off, so I just looked like a weird bobber taking too long to finish.

Heck yeah. So much so, that they’re only allowed to do it until the black marks on the floating lanes.

He entered thirteen hundredths of a second behind and handed off to the next leg a full second ahead. In a distance that is usually decided by those hundreths. The guys a swimming god.