ESPN has come up with a ranking of "toughest" sports and swimming seems, at least to me, to come up a bit short.
sports.espn.go.com/.../sportSkills
Of course, since it ranks Badminton as equal with Nordic Skiing, it MUST be right. ;)
-LBJ
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ESPN is ridiculous. None of any of thier rankings mean squat. They should have called this a popularity poll. EX. #1 Yes baseballs are hare to hit but come on, if bar leagers can play and compete how hard is it? I live in an area of about 300,000 and lots of beer bellied guys and gals can play ball and a lot of other sports listed b4 swimming. I'm willing to bet most could only dream of doing a 50 free in under 40secs. I know tri-athaletes that can't do this. Let's noy even get into doing low 20's and other times in swimimmig which lots of us do.
SWIMMING RULES
ESPN is ridiculous. None of any of thier rankings mean squat. They should have called this a popularity poll. EX. #1 Yes baseballs are hare to hit but come on, if bar leagers can play and compete how hard is it? I live in an area of about 300,000 and lots of beer bellied guys and gals can play ball and a lot of other sports listed b4 swimming. I'm willing to bet most could only dream of doing a 50 free in under 40secs. I know tri-athaletes that can't do this. Let's noy even get into doing low 20's and other times in swimimmig which lots of us do.
SWIMMING RULES
