Should Sport Be Non-Competitive In Schools?
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Is There a Better Way to Do Backstroke?
I often think that when I look at the invention of that, is anybody thought since then of a better way than that? And if there was, is it allowed? In other words, if somebody comes along and jumps a higher height, that's not doing the Fosbury flop. It doesn't matter what technique you use as long as you're clearing the ball. You can serve underarm in tennis but no one does - because it's ineffective. Yes. Like, I can't think of a parallel. But he must truly be one of the great innovators ever in history.
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