This still doesn't take into account an incredible freestyle ability that resulted in arguably one of the most loved Roots songs of all time, "75 bars".
Results of breaststroke swimmers were compared to results of freestyle swimmers.
Do not take more then one freestyle stroke as this will result in a disqualification also.
For the American Jeremy Bloom, who for five years struggled with disappointing results at the freestyle world championships at Deer Valley Resort, the last two days could not have been sweeter.
But his best results are coming in butterfly, while Mr Thorpe's favourite event is freestyle.
The 17-year-old Sheffield freestyle skier recorded her best career result after being out injured for six months with a serious knee injury.
He has not been able to demonstrate such results and in the 50m freestyle his time would have been seventh in the world.
Some swimmers tend to fatigue and slow down on their last 25 meters, resulting to a slow 50 freestyle.
The most severe of these occurred in freestyle skiing with 33 performance-restriction/time-loss days resulting, with one training related injury forcing an athlete to withdraw completely just prior to competition.
(The term "freestyle" has become synonymous with the crawl as a result).
