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What is your biggest swimming pet peeve?

My biggest swimming pet peeve is when someone gets in for warm up and swims too fast or aggressively, or says they'll let you go ahead of them but then passes you anyway.
 
Transcript: "My biggest swimming pet peeve is when someone gets in for warm up and starts swimming super fast and run, goes past you super aggressively. I also think it's really annoying when people say, oh, you can go ahead of me. And then proceed to pass you in the first 25 of the set. Like, just go ahead of me."
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Lydia Jacoby

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธOlympic Champion ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿฅˆ
My biggest swimming pet peeve is when someone gets in for warm up and starts swimming super fast and run, goes past you super aggressively. I also think it's really annoying when people say, oh, you can go ahead of me. And then proceed to pass you in the first 25 of the set. Like, just go ahead of me.
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Vinicius Lanza

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ทOlympian, 3x NCAA Champion
This one is easy. Too easy. Too easy, right? It drives me insane when I'm trying to reach someone by my side on practice. And I'm a guy that really tried to leave on time. I tried to see the nine, lowering the nine, and push it. And while there's guys by my side like, drop in on the seven and leave it on the eight, that drives me insane because that, the coach starts the watch when they leave, and he makes both of our trying-- our time's wrong, right? And I'm the one trying to do the right thing. And I'm getting my time's wrong. So that really pissed me off.
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Coleman Stewart

100m SCM Backstroke World Record Holder
My biggest swimming pet peeve is either people, not just they, when they keep asking me what the workout is, even though it's written right in front of us, that can get on my nerves and then when people leave right on your feet, so that's that is those are my two biggest ones and then to go off the second. One, Meet warm up. When it says, crowded meet absolutely drives me nuts. I hate warming up with people who don't know how to warm up.
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Tom Shields

2 x Olympic Champion๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿฅ‡
When, let's say we're in long course pool and there's two of us in it, or like a couple. But like maybe there's two people swimming back and me and you are on the wall here. And we're warming down, meet warm up situation. And I push off the wall and I'm going slow, like obviously going slow [INAUDIBLE] me down, no warm up, considered it. And then like you just decide within 100 meters of space, so 50 meters down that way and 50 meters down the other way, that the two or one to two meter range behind me is like where your whole body should be. I fucking, fucking don't like that shit.
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Zach Apple

Olympic 2x๐Ÿฅ‡World Champ 4๐Ÿฅ‡,2๐Ÿฅˆ,2๐Ÿฅ‰
By far, my biggest swimming pet peeve is when people leave early. Obviously, we're all in the water, and we all like to compete. And that person leaving a half second early, or whatever, on a hard effort gives them an advantage. And that's something that I don't really love, especially because I'm sure they want to beat me, and I want to beat them just as much. And so I hate it when people leave a half second to a second early. It just gives them that slight edge, and it's something that bothers me a lot.
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Brett Hawke

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ 5x Olympian - No.1 Swimming Podcast Host
Henry, my biggest pet peeve in swimming is when you don't hold your streamlines. Okay, you have to throw me the intention. Look at that. Marinas warming up. I didn't give her any instruction there. And yet here she is working those walls in warm-up. That's what the best athletes do. I hope you got to see that. I couldn't really tell if the camera was looking right at it. But that's what I mean by intention swimming with purpose every time you push off the wall. That's going to program your brain to tell you. I'm doing things the right way so that when you get to race day, you don't have to think about those things. You don't have to warm them up. They're already in your It's okay. Let's see if she does it again here. Beautiful. Hold those lines. That's what I'm talking about. And when swimmers don't get the basics, right? That's my biggest pet peeve.