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2016 rio olympic thread

wakephan09 said:
Man, I don't know how anyone could compare the swimmers to these track and field guys. These people are fucking done after their races, dying many deaths on the track. Is there a single athlete (other then multis/hep/dec) that are tripling events? It just doesn't happen.
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Compare usain bolt galloping an extra 100 yards after the race plus walking a victory lap to Michael phelps barely able to crawl out of the pool after some races.
 
CheesePritchard said:
In swimming they win gold and hop back in the pool twenty minutes later for a relay. They are incredible fit but they don't take a pounding, so they can easily spend 10 hours in a pool training and come back and do it again the next day.
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In track they run the 100 meter semis and final about an hour apart...
 
I think both swimming and track are swell #pleaselikemysport
 
timthedeac said:
Compare usain bolt galloping an extra 100 yards after the race plus walking a victory lap to Michael phelps barely able to crawl out of the pool after some races.
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timthedeac said:
In track they run the 100 meter semis and final about an hour apart...
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Ok, the 100 meter dash is easy. No argument from me. Not very many other events you can make that distinction for, though.
 
avalon said:
I think both swimming and track are swell #pleaselikemysport
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I occasionally run road races and have never swam a swim meet in my life. Just thought it was crazy to act like the swimming is somehow less impressive or demanding than the running
 
timthedeac said:
I occasionally run road races and have never swam a swim meet in my life. Just thought it was crazy to act like the swimming is somehow less impressive or demanding than the running
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I don't think it is any less impressive. In fact, I find swimming a lot more difficult than running. But you can't argue that swimming at the Olympic level is more demanding.
 
I think some people in this thread need to hop in the pool and try to swim a few laps of butterfly (much less a competitive butterfly race), and then weigh in again about how demanding swimming is compared to track. Most track races are going to be tougher on the body than a swimming race, but that person lying there for 20+ minutes after winning the 400m last night was a little ridiculous (obviously you can't do that in the pool or you would sink to the bottom and drown! :) )
 
uncaboref said:
that person lying there for 20+ minutes after winning the 400m last night was a little ridiculous (obviously you can't do that in the pool or you would sink to the bottom and drown! :) )
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That was incredibly dumb. I guess she was kind of overwhelmed with the whole winning a gold medal thing, but I agree that it was ridiculous. I said as much in this thread after watching it.
 
uncaboref said:
I think some people in this thread need to hop in the pool and try to swim a few laps of butterfly (much less a competitive butterfly race), and then weigh in again about how demanding swimming is compared to track. Most track races are going to be tougher on the body than a swimming race, but that person lying there for 20+ minutes after winning the 400m last night was a little ridiculous (obviously you can't do that in the pool or you would sink to the bottom and drown! :) )
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That's what the lifeguard is for.
 
PhDeac said:
That's what the lifeguard is for.
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Any event that if you fail at you can die, coupled against an event that you are genetically born to do means that second event loses.
 
ThinkingWithMyDeac said:
Any event that if you fail at you can die, coupled against an event that you are genetically born to do means that second event loses.
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While confusingly written, I take your point (and that's the same joke I made above). The argument that Cheese was making, and I was supplementing, was that one of the two is more demanding on the body of the athlete. That came about when we were pointing to why T&F athletes -- even the most dominant ones like Bolt and Ababa -- don't come away from the Olympics with 4 or 5 or 6 medals each.

I love swimming, and I love watching elite swimming. But the truth is that it is a no-contact, primarily aerobic sport that doesn't kill your body. Swimmers can train at a higher intensity and for longer.
 
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