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[Carol]

Catlady wrote:
> <snip> I'm not particularly interested in sports or television, but
the other
> morning the announcer of the radio news mentioned some swimmer had won
> the 'individual relay'. That sounds like an oxymoron to me, isn't in
> <http://www.onelook.com>, and Tim (who was on swim team in high
> school, where he once won one point for his team) says he never heard
> of it.
>
Carol responds:

it was probably "individual medley," meaning that the stroke the
swimmers are using changes with each 100 meters (two laps) of the
pool. I'm not an expert, so I may get the order or the strokes wrong,
but I think the strokes are breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and
freestyle. There's also a medldy relay (tonight, the big one, with
Michael Phelps's chance for, I think, an eighth gold medal in this
Olympics) features the same four strokes but four different swimmers
for each team (one per stroke).

I'm actually most interested in the women's gymnastics, particularly
the brave thirty-three-year-old that I haven't seen perform yet.

Carol, who'll happily accept correction for someone more expert in
swimming and sports in general