Stealing is part of their ‘culture’. They consider it a virtue to pull something over on others to gain the upper hand.
And for reasons like this, I consider it a virtue to pay little attention to Olympic swimmers. It looks like determining a winner actually comes down only to those who can cheat the best. This is Not in the Olympic tradition. Enough of this kind of playing the games will probably result in a loss of recognition & eventually no one will pay any attention.