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Olympic first: Men, women to swim together in the same relay race
TOKYO - Swimming is nothing if not orderly.Get ready for a little chaos.Here comes the 4x100-meter mixed medley relay making its Olympic debut in Tokyo on Saturday: Two men and two women per country doing backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. The teams get to decide who swims each stroke, so a woman from one team and a man from the other could be doing the butterfly, say, at the same time."I was probably a bit skeptical when it first came on the program, but I’m so thrilled that it’s now an Olympic event," Australian sprinter Cate Campbell said.