Take it with a grain of salt. It's fiction, and the author is throwing out what they believed will be believable facts for us readers. Since most of the readers are not infact going to be swimmers of this caliber. Or swimmers at all. Just BL readers.
That said it will be close enough to the truth that it will be believable. They also just want to keep us riveted with out to much jargon and enough plot. Which I like, but you will have people like you who know that it's not quite true or so and be, "that information is wrong." And it still be ok.
True. I've once pondered the genetics of omegaverse when one of the MCs had two moms but him and his sibling were both male (men's genetics determine sex in most mammals.) It took me a couple months to stop occasionally going down rabbit holes of over thought.
A lot of people seem to have different opinions but the most common I've seen are 400 IM, 200 Fly and 200 Free
Yeah, let's leave the science and biology behind omegaverse. Let's shove that in it's dark corner where it belongs. We know it's fiction. We know it won't happen. But we just nodded and smile with delight that someone even was brave enough to think of it as a concept in the first place ...lol.
Former high school swimmer. I just read the first chapter and I am stuck on the chapter saying the 400m individual medley is the hardest event in swimming. Do the majority of you think the same?
Because the events no one wanted to do when I was in high school were the 100 butterfly and the 500 freestyle; the entire reason I was even in the fly was because there was only one other event between it and the 500 so it served as a warm up. I was an endurance swimmer so I wouldn't call the 500 that difficult because someone counted for you. In the Olympics, this is the full mile and they still count for you.
But even in the Olympics, near no one looks good after two laps of Butterfly (Yes, Michael Phelps is an exception.) In high school, it's 50. Olympic-sized pools are 50 long so that's a 100. From my perspective, doing butterfly the entire time is the most difficult. With a medley, it's not only easier to count because you switch strokes but as they focus on different muscle groups, you get a bit of a break switching to another stroke.