Hardest of these sports to make/medal at the Olympics

> 2. cross country skiing

> 3. speed skating

Gravity sports and low resistance sports are not athletics.

goldmedalthief wrote:

4. Swimming - 1st world countries only, Would have put #2 but so many events makes for lots of chances to medal.

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You could say the same for running. Especially considering how some events (5k/10k) are much easier to medal in these days than others. Swimming is definitely the hardest listed though. Those athletes start training in elementary school. Many runners don't start until highschool.

kkks wrote:

You could say the same for running. Especially considering how some events (5k/10k) are much easier to medal in these days than others. Swimming is definitely the hardest listed though. Those athletes start training in elementary school. Many runners don't start until highschool.

No you couldn't, swimming has way more medals to win. Look up the list of multiple Olympic medalists on Wikipedia and count how most of them are swimmers.

Swimming also doesn't have Africans. Running has lots of Africans. It's way harder when you have to compete against Africans, unless you are African. The Africans are really, really good at running.

Hardloper wrote:

No you couldn't, swimming has way more medals to win. Look up the list of multiple Olympic medalists on Wikipedia and count how most of them are swimmers.

Swimming also doesn't have Africans. Running has lots of Africans. It's way harder when you have to compete against Africans, unless you are African. The Africans are really, really good at running.

You are wrong. We are not discussing whether or not swimming has more or less medals than running. We are comparing them to the rest of the listed sports. I am correct.

Swimming does have the equivalent of Africans. They are the rich and developed countries. They are really, really good at swimming.

Cross-country skiing. You need a bigger engine than all the other sports plus you need the technique and strength.

kkks wrote:

You are wrong. We are not discussing whether or not swimming has more or less medals than running. We are comparing them to the rest of the listed sports. I am correct.

Uhm. When there are more medals to win and fewer competitors, is it easier or harder?

If swimming were hardest to medal in then how come swimming has more double medalists than any other sport? That must be the craziest coincidence of all-time.

What if a triathlete won 8 golds in an Olympics?

kkks wrote:

Swimming does have the equivalent of Africans. They are the rich and developed countries. They are really, really good at swimming.

We are discussing this from the perspective of rich and developed countries. This is LetsRun.

7. Curling -- Is there a more non-athletic event in the Olympics?

Hardloper wrote:

kkks wrote:

You are wrong. We are not discussing whether or not swimming has more or less medals than running. We are comparing them to the rest of the listed sports. I am correct.

Uhm. When there are more medals to win and fewer competitors, is it easier or harder?

If swimming were hardest to medal in then how come swimming has more double medalists than any other sport? That must be the craziest coincidence of all-time.

What if a triathlete won 8 golds in an Olympics?

kkks wrote:

Swimming does have the equivalent of Africans. They are the rich and developed countries. They are really, really good at swimming.

We are discussing this from the perspective of rich and developed countries. This is LetsRun.

Swimming has more double medalists because there are more events. It's harder to medal in swimming because the competitors have been training since elementary school. No one can be this dumb. You have to be a troll.

kkks wrote:

It's harder to medal in swimming because the competitors have been training since elementary school.

KKK dude, that's precisely what makes it so easy. By the time you're 10 years old you've already eliminated the underdeveloped nations from the competition.

No one can be this dumb. You must have never left the suburbs.

Aleksandr Dityatin set an Olympic record in the gymnastics competition at Moscow by 1980, by winning a medal in all eight gymnastics events. The record is also the most medals won by any athlete at a single Olympics, since equaled by Michael Phelps in swimming in 2004. His three gold medals came in the team and individual all-around, and on the rings, to which he added four silvers and a bronze medal. His finest performance was in the horse vault when he received the first perfect score (10) awarded to a male gymnast at the Olympics. He was equally dominant at the World Championships, winning 12 medals (seven gold, two silver, three bronze). His best year was 1979 when he was all-around champion, and won gold medals on the rings and the horse vault. Dityatin was also all-around World Cup champion in 1978 and 1979.

Add Two Silvers from '76 Team All-Around and Rings

1980 (summer) Gymnastics-Soviet Union

Individual All-Around Olympic 1 Gold

Team All-Around Olympic Soviet Union 1 Gold

Floor Exercise Olympic 3 Bronze

Horse Vault Olympic 2 Silver

Parallel Bars Olympic 2 Silver

Horizontal Bar Olympic 2 Silver

Rings Olympic 1 Gold

Pommelled Horse Olympic 2 Silver

info from

http://olympedia.org

kkks wrote:

Swimming has more double medalists because there are more events.

You can keep repeating this if you want but you are wrong. The Olympics have 17 swimming events for men and 17 events for women. The Olympics have 24 Athletics events for men and 23 for women. So there are quite a few more medals available in Athletics.

Race walking is the way to make an Olympic team as an American. Nobody does that event, and we suck compared to most other countries.

kkks wrote:

Especially considering how some events (5k/10k) are much easier to medal in these days than others.

What??? I genuinely don't know what you mean by that

how hard would it be for a runner to transition to racewalking? would regionally competitive runners slot right into the highest levels of racewalking once they learnt the technique?

Mr. Obvious wrote:

kkks wrote:

Swimming has more double medalists because there are more events.

You can keep repeating this if you want but you are wrong. The Olympics have 17 swimming events for men and 17 events for women. The Olympics have 24 Athletics events for men and 23 for women. So there are quite a few more medals available in Athletics.

You are an idiot too. I'm not talking about compared to track. I'm talking about compared too ALL sports.

kkks wrote:

Mr. Obvious wrote:

You can keep repeating this if you want but you are wrong. The Olympics have 17 swimming events for men and 17 events for women. The Olympics have 24 Athletics events for men and 23 for women. So there are quite a few more medals available in Athletics.

I'm not talking about compared to track. I'm talking about compared too ALL sports.

Swimming has the second most number of events, so if that was your point then you are correct. I don't see any reason to call names over it, though.

kkks wrote:

You could say the same for running. Especially considering how some events (5k/10k) are much easier to medal in these days than others. Swimming is definitely the hardest listed though. Those athletes start training in elementary school. Many runners don't start until highschool.

I hope you're kidding. Distance running is far and away the hardest to earn a medal because it's cheap, accessible, and lucrative, making it affordable to even third world countries. World-wide participation is off the charts compared to other more "exclusive" sports. More Africans may be moving away from the 5K/10K to the roads cause of money, but it's still far more competitive than it was in the Amateur days.

Try yachting or horseback riding. High costs of entry.

I know the OP is not talking about a girl but FWIW, women's speed skating and cycling would be the easiest as there are literally NO TOP WOMEN doing these sports.

If I were a girl in the 15-18 year-old range I would buy a bike and a pair of roller blades TODAY. Start riding and racing on the rollers. In a few years you transition to ice for speed skating and you will probably make the national/world and possibly Olympic team if you can stay on your feet...it's that bad...

For him, how about fencing?