she still swam close to her best time, but that doesn't matter, it's always better to swim a male breastroker.

@@sethaldrich6902 r u good

The mixed medley was after all the 100s. I used those times. Not a big difference.

@@SkillsNT the big difference is they would have gotten second if FMMF, your times are off. you'll see inparis, noteam will swim a male on freestyle bc that would be slower

On paper, what matters is the time difference between the male swimmer and the female swimmer you're actually choosing from in each stroke, and I didn't try to do the calculations, but it's perfectly possible that in the case of say Romania, that their fastest relay includes David Popovici swimming the freestyle leg. But the main reason it's generally not smart to put a guy last, and the thing @SkillsNT is failing to take into account is that you swim relays in a pool, not on paper...and if you put a male last, and the relays on either side of you have already used their 2 male swimmers, it means your butterflier and freestyler going to be fighting against the wake of the swimmers ahead of them, which will make it difficult to match their best performances. So you might have several different combos with male and female swimmers in different slots that are within about .3 on paper, but the fastest option on paper isn't necessarily going to be the one that gets you the best result because having clean vs. choppy water during your swim can easily make more of a difference than that, and so you also have to take into account what the teams on either side of you are likely to do, and give your team the best chance of having clean water, which generally means front-loading the mixed medley with guys, or at least using them in 2 of the first 3 legs.

nope, you should never have a male swim freestyle, females are closer to male times. WR in fly diffrence in male and female is almost 6 seconds, whereas world record difference in free is only 4 and a half seconds. Simple math.

I think you're going to see Dressel on the fly leg, and Kate Douglass in free. Front end almost definitely Smith and Fink.

You should have male breaststroke, female freestyle. Back and fly are tossups.

I was born in the 90s 😅 I don't know what that clinic is

On paper and for wr. It's not the case for every country.

@@SkillsNT WR difference in free between guys and girls is 4 and a half seconds, so it's much closer than any other stroke, you should never have a man swim the freestyle leg, it was a huge mistake for USA, you'll see in Paris, no one will swim a man on the final leg, this has been proven in the swimming community since Tokyo, they made a huge misake same one you just made in this video sadly. You should alway have the male do breastroke because there is the widest gap there and you should always have the female swim freestyle bc there is the littlest gap between fastest females and males.

@@sethaldrich6902 not everyone has world record people on the relay. And Dressel was in no position of swimming a world record on his third event of the night. Like I said putting Apple would've made more sense.

They wouldn't put him in any other strokes because there are two people faster than him in those strokes. They have 2 swimmers of each stroke of 100 meters. In the case of freestyle, butterfly men they only had 3.

If Dressel isn't doing fly or free, the relay would be Ryan Murphy (back), Nic Fink (breast), Gretchen Walsh (fly), Kate Douglass (free). It's probably not the fastest on paper, but having the guys swim the first two legs does have its advantages. The one that may be fastest on paper and probably makes the most sense is Smith, Fink, Dressel, Douglass.

Same lol

I thought it was some transgender getting beaten by 7 females!

yes. your tactic is sound. should man swim the butterfly leg as well?