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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money and willingness to pay $$ for year round teams and private lessons.   Not genetics.   [/quote]

I agree with this, for most of these swimmers it's more about $$$ spent and length/amount of time practiced than genetics.  Go to enough swim meets and you gain perspective on this.

To me genetics come into play when someone who doesn't swim much is able to keep up with more seasoned swimmers or when a swimmer is absolutely dominating the competition at every meet. [/quote]

Agree. DH and his siblings are strong swimmers. They took tons of lessons when they were growing up. None of them have any other standout athletic abilities to say it’s genetic. [/quote]

That’s not entirely fair either though. Most great swimmers don’t have other standout athletic abilities. I wouldn’t be surprised if Michael Phelps could barely throw a ball or would look incredibly awkward running 100m. [/quote]

What? I don’t think you know much about swimming.

Caeleb dressel has a 43” vertical jump. The average nba player has a 28” vertical jump.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/athletics/news/us-swimmer-caeleb-dressel-vertical-leap-nba/11j6llogcmqlz1ahelzfakobgp

Tim Duncan and Kris humphries are former standout swimmers who chose bball over swimming.

I think you are conflating the fact that many kids who are not considered athletic in other sports find their way to swimming. But the top swimmers are definitely athletes.

Kyle Chalmers might take up Aussie football after the next Olympics. 
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I agree with you. 
There are plenty of athletes who are very talented all around athletically. My kids have never been bad at a sport, including all ball sports and running. Their size and shape and body awareness helped them be very good soccer goalies and basketball players. They are probably best at swimming because they love it and chose it over the others eventually and work really hard 6d per week.

I am pretty sure Phelps is a good golfer. Look at all the athletes who do charity golf stuff and are pretty good. [/quote]

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