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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t stress how wrong it is saying overall athleticism doesn’t matter in swimming.  Go to a national level meet in person.  Watch the elite swimmers explode of the blocks and walls, their underwaters.  And also look at their physicality.  Watch Dressel.  This isn’t the 80s/90s where swimmers were the ones who couldn’t do anything on land.  Top swimmers are athletes.  Play another sport growing up, give them an athletic foundation[/quote]
I meant overall athleticism as developed by a second sport.  FFS - of *course* Olympians are incredible athletes.  That's not the point.  There's relatively less benefit to a kid who swims also playing, say, soccer, than there is for a kid who plays football to also play baseball.  There are different ways to be an incredible athlete, PP.

And to a different PP - if your kid needs to fill their extra time with other sports, have at it.  But there are plenty of ways to get physical activity and do other things beyond organized, hyper-competitive sports.[/quote]

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