A strong breaststroke is valuable in the Individual Medley race because it is late in the race when swimmers are tired and it takes up the most time.

“I think with IM I think having a strong breast stroke is valuable because it's late in the race everybody's tired and it takes up the most time of the race so if you can I remember swimming like at a master's meet if I could take six seconds out of somebody in a breastroke right they could be faster than me in the other nobody's going to take anything out of you in the fly because it's the beginning of the race like you just everybody's sort of conserving energy yeah yeah that that's a fair point”