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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swimming is an individual sport with an artificial team structure imposed on it. You can impose such a structure on almost anything, but it doesn't make it a team sport. The Ryder cup players are playing on a golf team. They work in union with one another. Golf is still not a team sport. Same with swimming. Creating a team structure/competition/relays is just a way to include more kids in the individual sport, and train them as a group rather than individuals. [/quote]

You need eleven players plus subs to play a soccer match. That is what I think of as a team sport.

However, there isn't a set number of swimmers for a team. While the US sends two swimmers per event to the Olympics, other smaller countries (with fewer world class swimmers than the US) require their swimmers to meet a certain standard, such as the probability of making a semi-final. If their top backstoker isn't world class, they don't send a backstroker.  Thus a swim "team" might be 40 people or might just be one or two.[/quote]

There are no swim teams with 2 people, usually 40 to a few hundred.  [/quote]

I think you are talking about US college and summer swim teams. That's not the norm in the rest of the world e.g. my university had no swim team or pool for that matter. My country of origin often sends only 5-8 swimmers to the Olympics, and often doesn't have enough swimmers to even field a relay in the heats. They won't spend money on swimmers who aren't good enough to perform at a world class level. [/quote]

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