http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPIA7mpm1wU&feature=player_embedded
They all have better chances to medal AND they are more attractive.
They all have better chances to medal AND they are more attractive.
As soon as I saw your thread headline I knew what you were gonna link to--as someone who unabashedly enjoys the shit out of tween-pop, this video is awesome.
So all track needs is the Olympic team to lip sync a pop song and it would be popular? Well, then let's get right on it.
Tyler Clarly is a fvckin nerd-burglar
You're being sarcastic right? Please tell me you're being sarcastic. If not, I'm surprised you can actually use a computer.
Even the average girls in that video are far more attractive than the American track and field runners.
Swimming is so popular that they have 306 views on the video in an Olympic year. Worldwide, track is much more popular. Swimmers are a bunch of country club kids while runners are a cross section of the entire world.
Except Lolo Jones wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPIA7mpm1wU&feature=player_embeddedThey all have better chances to medal AND they are more attractive.
That is because swimming allows for a more feminine body type. Some body fat is required while in distance running you need to be rail thin. All swimmers have a much higher body fat % and female swimmers can have more feminine features such as breasts or hips. In distance running the more a woman looks like a man the better.
Think, think.. wrote:
Even the average girls in that video are far more attractive than the American track and field runners.
Not for you wrote:
Swimming is so popular that they have 306 views on the video in an Olympic year. Worldwide, track is much more popular. Swimmers are a bunch of country club kids while runners are a cross section of the entire world.
Given that the vid has 1200+ likes (as of this minute), and that the number of views won't be updated for a while, I think we can assume that some thousands of people have seen it.
That said, watching white kids get down creeps me out a little.
luv2run wrote:
So all track needs is the Olympic team to lip sync a pop song and it would be popular? Well, then let's get right on it.
That and not being a weak anorexic.
luv2run wrote:
So all track needs is the Olympic team to lip sync a pop song and it would be popular? Well, then let's get right on it.
Couldn't hurt. What's wrong with a video of an entire team having fun?
Hell, at this point I'd be happy if the T&F team got any kind of publicity, so USATF should pay attention. Sure, on average the T&F team is older so a chipper little teen pop song likely would make them gag, but the Bears did the "Super Bowl Shuffle" the least Team USA could do is a cover of "The Hustle" or maybe The Gestures "Run Run Run".
It's all about the bulge.
There is a reason that the adjective "phelpsian" is part of vernacular, and "ruppian" isn't.
Not for you wrote:
Swimming is so popular that they have 306 views on the video in an Olympic year. Worldwide, track is much more popular. Swimmers are a bunch of country club kids while runners are a cross section of the entire world.
1- The video was uploaded on July 26th 2012
2- There are over 1500 likes for the video and over 260 comments, so the views are NOT updated correctly
3- You're an EXTRAORDINARILY bitter runner. You should probably know that Michael Phelps alone generates more global media coverage than the entirety of the T & F distance world. There are CZECH papers that routinely cover him, and Chinese papers that analyze his diet.
In fact, I can personally confirm that if you were to travel to Hefei, Ningbo, Shanghai, or Beijing in China, you'd be VERY hard-pressed to find someone who didn't know who Phelps was.
In contrast, ask them who Bekele, Gebrselassie, Rupp, Lagat, El Guerrouj or Komen are, and you won't even get a response.
On that note, you can also travel around the US asking junior high DISTANCE RUNNERS who Jim Ryun is, and a titanic portion of them will draw a blank. In contrast, most 8-year-old swimmers in Illinois are aware of Mark Spitz and his swimming accomplishments (7 Gold Medals if you're not aware).
Not sure this proves anything. Olympic swimmers are by far much younger than their track and field counterparts. I can't imagine grown adults in their late 20's or older like Allyson Felix, Shalane Flanagan, Amy Hastings, Molly Huddle, Kara Goucher, Ryan Hall, Bernard Legat, etc., making such a video.
Not for you wrote:
Swimming is so popular that they have 306 views on the video in an Olympic year. Worldwide, track is much more popular. Swimmers are a bunch of country club kids while runners are a cross section of the entire world.
Or you could just ignore the my earlier post and just take a look here...
Michael Phelps & Ian Thorpe vs. BEST EVER Distance Runners
http://www.facebook.com/michaelphelpshttp://www.facebook.com/IanThorpeOfficialhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Haile-Gebrselassie/108207255869860http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hicham-El-Guerrouj/11934949247http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kenenisa-Bekele/21177068703Mark Spitz vs. Jim Ryun (Old, Forgotten American Legends)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Spitz/114221918588104?ref=tsJim Ryun:
http://www.facebook.com/JimRyunRyan Lochte vs. Rupp (Best American Runner vs. Best American Swimmer that isn't Phelps)
http://www.facebook.com/RyanSLochtehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Galen-Rupp/118832560411To put it simply, what you see here is the appeal that each athlete has in normal, every-day popular culture.
Add up EVERYTHING that the runners have, and they can't even match 10% of the "well-known" factor possessed by Phelps
Runners take themselves very seriously
Swimming is more popular because white Americans are at the top of the sport.
By what measure are we saying that swimming is more popular?
When you say track and field, do you really mean distance running? Because plenty of track athletes are well known. I just saw Lolo Jones on the cover of Time.