The Sport Of Swimming In the sport of swimming the 200 yard Individual medley also known as the Im is one of the most difficult events of competing in the high school level. It takes mental and physical disiplain just to finish the event , yet alone do well in it. the reason why it is so hard is because it requires the swimmer to swim all the strokes in one race making you tired very quickly. The Im makes you have to do the equal amount of strokes in the order of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. for those who don't know the 200 is 8 laps which means you do a 50 of each strokes in the 200 which means you have to do 2 laps of each stroke. The butterfly i