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*Soccer<ref>Olympic rules prohibit the best players in the world from competing</ref>

*Soccer<ref>Olympic rules prohibit the best players in the world from competing</ref>

*Synchronized swimming

*Synchronized swimming

*Swimming relays<ref>In running relays, there is a baton that must be artfully passed during the race.  No such baton passing exists for the silly swimming relays.  Would anyone want a long jump or pole vault "relay"???</ref>

*[[Swimming]] relays<ref>In running relays, there is a baton that must be artfully passed during the race.  No such baton passing exists for the silly swimming relays.  Would anyone want a long jump or pole vault "relay"???</ref>

*Backstroke races<ref>An inefficient, silly stroke comparable to foot races for hopping or running backwards.</ref>

*Backstroke races<ref>An inefficient, silly stroke comparable to foot races for hopping or running backwards.</ref>

*Swimming medleys<ref>It is hard even to imagine how preposterous a land-based equivalent of this might look. Yet swimmers award and receive gold medals for them without raising a single eyebrow.</ref>

*Swimming medleys<ref>It is hard even to imagine how preposterous a land-based equivalent of this might look. Yet swimmers award and receive gold medals for them without raising a single eyebrow.</ref>