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Could you guess the hardest Olympic sport at the Olympics?
It kinda and kinda not had my surprised but apparently…
*drum rolls*
It’s artistic swimming! As the athletes require the not only the artistry and flexibility of the gymnasts, they need the stamina of runners, the lung capacity of long distance swimmers (as they can’t really breathe in the 3” and something routine), and lots of practice in synchronisation off and in water…while looking pretty
Apparently even other athletes seem to comprehend the difficulty of this under appreciated sport but yeah!
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its probably subjective just like everyone thinks that their job is the hardest
I’m sure theyre all equally hard in their own ways and the challenges you need to overcome to get to the very top |
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"Yeah, flapping around in a pool is so much harder than cycling for 7 hours, on an undulating course against the fittest people on the planet."
Probably the cyclists would do 18 hours straight rather than do what the artistic swimmers have to endure, for little glory …because people think they flap around a pool like ducks. |
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"its probably subjective just like everyone thinks that their job is the hardest
I’m sure theyre all equally hard in their own ways and the challenges you need to overcome to get to the very top "
Also I’m not the one saying it’s the hardest sport, they have been saying it on the BBC and articles have sprung out about it lol |
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"its probably subjective just like everyone thinks that their job is the hardest
I’m sure theyre all equally hard in their own ways and the challenges you need to overcome to get to the very top
Also I’m not the one saying it’s the hardest sport, they have been saying it on the BBC and articles have sprung out about it lol "
I suppose its how they define hardest
in terms of all the technical aspects that need to be brought together then theres a lot going on so I can see where theyre coming from
but say youre up at 4am every day training through all weathers pushing every sinew to drive that extra 0.1 second performance out of your body thats equally hard but in a different way.  |
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"its probably subjective just like everyone thinks that their job is the hardest
I’m sure theyre all equally hard in their own ways and the challenges you need to overcome to get to the very top
Also I’m not the one saying it’s the hardest sport, they have been saying it on the BBC and articles have sprung out about it lol
I suppose its how they define hardest
in terms of all the technical aspects that need to be brought together then theres a lot going on so I can see where theyre coming from
but say youre up at 4am every day training through all weathers pushing every sinew to drive that extra 0.1 second performance out of your body thats equally hard but in a different way. "
Oh for sure!! I guess sometimes with sport where it requires artistry you have a few more tweaks and components of difficulty to get it perfect.
But equally all athletes gave their 150% in and out of the competition all day everyday |
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It's aerobic capacity.
The artistic swimmers have an aerobic capacity that's just behind long distance running.
Now obviously they don't have to the same level of endurance required for a marathon or marathon swim or a road race.
Equally they don't have anaerobic efforts of sprinter's.
Buy the synco swimmers are extremely fit and they train ridiculously hard.
But hardest olympic sport.
They are all hard I their own way.
But multi sport events are are definitely the hardest due to the skill and endurance required.
Heptathlon, decathlon, pentathlon.
But personally I think the hardest is the triathlon at the level they race is incredible. |
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"It's aerobic capacity.
The artistic swimmers have an aerobic capacity that's just behind long distance running.
Now obviously they don't have to the same level of endurance required for a marathon or marathon swim or a road race.
Equally they don't have anaerobic efforts of sprinter's.
Buy the synco swimmers are extremely fit and they train ridiculously hard.
But hardest olympic sport.
They are all hard I their own way.
But multi sport events are are definitely the hardest due to the skill and endurance required.
Heptathlon, decathlon, pentathlon.
But personally I think the hardest is the triathlon at the level they race is incredible."
The only thing that I can sort of see, is the difficulty on getting the routines right I can only imagine the amount of repetition of small adjustments and movements they have to do. Underwater when they are upside down and can barely see what happens. The duo might be a bit easier, but the group. Is like wow. I read someone smashed a nose in with a foot in competition
Of course every sport is very hard in their own ways |
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Obviously there’s no actual answer, but we could throw out some ideas
You could argue that’s it’s football purely because it’s got the largest pool of competitors. So to be the best you have to beat out so many people.
But you could also argue that absolute atheism sports like the 100m sprint or the decathlon are the hardest because lots of people just won’t have the body required to compete at a high level, no matter how hard they train
I’d still go with football. It’s the most played sport in the world. To be the best you have to beat out literally millions of people for every corner of the globe.
That’s not to say the artistic swimming or whatever it’s called it’s crazy difficult, but the pool of people you need the best to be at the top are so many times smaller it’s hard to say it’s the hardest.
But hardest is subjective. Golf could be considered the hardest sport because you have such a low margin of error. 1 bad swing on the 1st hole could literally cost you the game. But it’s not exactly the hardest sport from an athletic standpoint. |
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