Hi all, I was recently reading the below article which listed the greatest Olympic gold winners of all time. I noticed there were 6 swimmers in the list out of 25 athletes.
Is this because there are multiple opportunities to win medals at Olympic swimming or just because the swimmers winning the medals are by far the best in their field?
Original article: www.infobarrel.com/25_Top_Olympic_Gold_Medal_Winners
I think swimming is hard to judge when it comes to medal count versus certain other sports.
Take Alexander Karelin - Russian wrestler extraordinaire...3 gold medals at Super-heavyweight over a 3 Olympic appearances, and a silver at his 4th.
Obviously an event like wrestling you have to go through multiple rounds of wins, to ultimately get one medal. It would be like having to swim all 4 50m stokes, but only getting a medal if you win them all - or win the majority.
I think swimming is hard to judge when it comes to medal count versus certain other sports.
Take Alexander Karelin - Russian wrestler extraordinaire...3 gold medals at Super-heavyweight over a 3 Olympic appearances, and a silver at his 4th.
Obviously an event like wrestling you have to go through multiple rounds of wins, to ultimately get one medal. It would be like having to swim all 4 50m stokes, but only getting a medal if you win them all - or win the majority.
