Are Triathletes worth the dues they pay toward Masters Swimming?
I say we force all Triathletes to spend one day a week in the sprint lane, one day a week doing stroke (i.e. IM) work, and then make them focus on their starts and turns.
This invasion needs to be controlled.... :-)
John Smith
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Having attended both, Bill, I would say this is not an "invented fact." There is never, ever, enough seating at USS meets or even at small summer league dual meets. Age group swimming is huge, and just keeps growing. By comparison, very few age groupers are running before high school and even fewer are doing triathlons. Swimming is vastly more popular.
I've been to triathlons with my teenager where there is barely a spectator or very few. However, I'm sure Lake Placid or Kona are better attended.
Heck, I love swimming as a standalone sport or as part of tri, so I don't really have a side in this "discussion".
However, I think it's a relatively silly comparison to say that swimming must be more popular because you can't get one of the few hundred seats around most pools, and Tri is less popular because it's so easy to find a seat along the 140.6 mile of the venue. :doh:
On the other hand, great point about swimming being the (or at least one of the) highlighted sport of the summer olympics.
Of course, downhill skiing and curling get a lot of attention for 14 days every four years too. :bolt:
Having attended both, Bill, I would say this is not an "invented fact." There is never, ever, enough seating at USS meets or even at small summer league dual meets. Age group swimming is huge, and just keeps growing. By comparison, very few age groupers are running before high school and even fewer are doing triathlons. Swimming is vastly more popular.
I've been to triathlons with my teenager where there is barely a spectator or very few. However, I'm sure Lake Placid or Kona are better attended.
Heck, I love swimming as a standalone sport or as part of tri, so I don't really have a side in this "discussion".
However, I think it's a relatively silly comparison to say that swimming must be more popular because you can't get one of the few hundred seats around most pools, and Tri is less popular because it's so easy to find a seat along the 140.6 mile of the venue. :doh:
On the other hand, great point about swimming being the (or at least one of the) highlighted sport of the summer olympics.
Of course, downhill skiing and curling get a lot of attention for 14 days every four years too. :bolt:
