Reply to Do you consider swimming on a swim team a team sport?

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "Do you consider swimming on a swim team a team sport?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swimming is an individual sport with an artificial team structure imposed on it. You can impose such a structure on almost anything, but it doesn't make it a team sport. The Ryder cup players are playing on a golf team. They work in union with one another. Golf is still not a team sport. Same with swimming. Creating a team structure/competition/relays is just a way to include more kids in the individual sport, and train them as a group rather than individuals. [/quote]

You need eleven players plus subs to play a soccer match. That is what I think of as a team sport.

However, there isn't a set number of swimmers for a team. While the US sends two swimmers per event to the Olympics, other smaller countries (with fewer world class swimmers than the US) require their swimmers to meet a certain standard, such as the probability of making a semi-final. If their top backstoker isn't world class, they don't send a backstroker.  Thus a swim "team" might be 40 people or might just be one or two.[/quote]

There are no swim teams with 2 people, usually 40 to a few hundred.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics