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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how many strokes under water are the swimmers allowed to make?....thought it was one...marchaund makes 2 before breaking the water...?[/quote]

Which stroke? For breaststroke, they are allowed to make one downward dolphin kick on their pullout. Many many swimmers have been disqualified for sneaking in an extra dolphin kick, and it used to be rampant before underwater cameras.

For other strokes, they can take as many dolphins as they like as long as their head pops up before 15m. [/quote]what about when they do their flip turn for freestyle? Can they kick for 15m before head pops up?[/quote]

Yes, for all turns, their head has to break the surface before the 15m mark. They can kick until then, either flutter or dolphin. But flutter kick doesn’t help you go as fast as dolphin kicks, so swimmers stick to dolphins. It was actually current Olympic swimmer and 100 back bronze medalist Katherine berkoff’s dad who made this rule necessary. He went really far underwater in the ‘88 Olympics and was beating everyone.

Another rule instituted because someone was too fast is the Lochte rule. Ryan Lochte was so good at dolphin kicking on his back rather his front, that he would use it after his freestyle turns. That is still fine in freestyle events, but FINA decided to call kicking on one’s back “backstroke”, and said you couldn’t do more than 25% of an individual medley in backstroke, so he couldn’t kick on his back from breast to free or free to free in individual medleys. It’s not a popular rule. [/quote]

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