Jul 3, 2024
10:44:49am
10:44:49am
Ok. In America there are way more children and adults in competitive swimming than gymnastics. There are 4x as many
female NCAA swimmers than there are female NCAA gymnasts. (14,000 v 3,500)
And that’s when they’ve been eliminated down to college athletes.
More than 10x as many female high school swimmers (if we include boys it’s almost twice that)
16,200 female highschool gymnasts. 173,000 female high school swimmers.
The difference is going to be much more stark the lower you go, where the barrier to entry is far lower for kids to get onto a swim team and swimming competitions than into gymnastics competitions.
It’s just not remotely close.
100% of those swimmers has trained and competed in most of the same events. They have essentially the same swimming heroes (Phelps/Ledecky)
And that’s when they’ve been eliminated down to college athletes.
More than 10x as many female high school swimmers (if we include boys it’s almost twice that)
16,200 female highschool gymnasts. 173,000 female high school swimmers.
The difference is going to be much more stark the lower you go, where the barrier to entry is far lower for kids to get onto a swim team and swimming competitions than into gymnastics competitions.
It’s just not remotely close.
100% of those swimmers has trained and competed in most of the same events. They have essentially the same swimming heroes (Phelps/Ledecky)
Originally posted on Jul 3, 2024 at 10:44:49am
Message modified by mvtoro on Jul 3, 2024 at 10:53:32am
Message modified by mvtoro on Jul 3, 2024 at 10:54:45am
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You can respect her and recognize her amazing accomplishments but also recognize she did, in fact, let people down.
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It's both. I don't think this is hard to understand. All participation isn't created equal. Track and swimming and
Jul 3, 10:12am
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You are talking to Americans here so why are we switching to talk about global participation? Also my daughter is
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Ok. In America there are way more children and adults in competitive swimming than gymnastics. There are 4x as many
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I was touting the fact that she's 4'8" and jumped 12 ft in the air. I can't think of another human achieving that kind
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