Paris 2024: Unusual rule in Olympic swimming relay revealed |

Subscribe and turn on notifications🔔 : buff.ly/3F6ZiLt | There were extraordinary scenes in the men's 4x200m relay at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday night - not only because Australia claimed an unexpected bronze medal. A massive talking point was the fact there was an extra team in the race - with nine countries swimming in the final rather than the usual eight.
The strange situation came about because Israel and Japan produced the exact same time in the heats - which ended up being the eighth-fastest qualifying time. Rather than make the two countries swim off for a place in the final, officials made the rare call of allowing both to advance.
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[@Mdksupreme1]

Why have 10 lanes but only let 8 teams swim?

[@realalbertan]

This has happened in before at worlds in the women's 800