Jul 3, 2024
9:31:42am
9:31:42am
For those touting Biles, who is remarkable,
Recency bias tends to play a role in considering we the greatest female athlete.
Shiffrin has 96 World Cup wins and counting having broken Stemlnmark’s record last year. She had her own yips in Beijing but she returned this year to win her eighth World Cup in in Slalom in Åra Sweden.
We forget how dominant Serena Williams was or how amazing Jackie Joyner-Kersey was.
Katie Ledecky is still doing it.
She has the fastest 19 times in the 1500 with no swimmer being 20 seconds close to her.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has broken the world record three times and is one second faster than in anyone else in the 400. Only one other woman has run under 52 and Sydney is at 50.65.
There are a number of dominant women.
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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
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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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