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*[[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"???  However, in swimming relays, strategy is an important component. Placement of the fastest and slowest swimmers in the order is important. Also, precise timing is required as well - the swimmer completing his/her turn must touch the wall before the following swimmer can leave the starting block.</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"???  However, in swimming relays, strategy is an important component. Placement of the fastest and slowest swimmers in the order is important. Also, precise timing is required as well - the swimmer completing his/her turn must touch the wall before the following swimmer can leave the starting block.</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>
*[[Table_tennis|Table Tennis]]
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*[[Table_tennis|Table tennis]]
 
*Women's [[boxing]] and [[wrestling]]
 
*Women's [[boxing]] and [[wrestling]]
  
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