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[quote=Anonymous]What's the difference in time between "swimming nyur best on your own" vs "being motivated by someone you can see racing against you"?

I'd expect more of an effect from water disturbance from people swimming slightly ahead of you, so it's more fair to have circle seeding because the 8th and 9th fastest swimmers of 24 get to be in the middle of their heat (lane 3) than have 8th in the back of their heat and 9th at the front of their heat.

More generally, even if you don't know *why* a certain  heat layout and placement is better or worse for a swimmer,  putting rveryone at a similar rank in a similar placement in the pool, is more fair than the arbitrary cuts based on number of lanes. Circle seeding is basically like having 3 separate qualifying races at different pools, and then taking top times.

As with most qualifying rounda in any sport, it's more important to make sure the eventual top potential-winnrs finishers qualify for the final and don't knock each other out in prelims, than it is to make sure the actual 8th best performer gets into the final 8 instead of the 9th best performer.
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