50m freestyle Men semifinals Sydney olympic 2000

[Theshofumiah1]

what a gay fucking language. sounds like a cartoon talking

[dimadeloseros1]

ho-ge-ban-do

[TheMasterpiece007]

how much faster is a good dive start to a kick-off-the-wall start in a 50m freestyle race?

[josie1839]

@TheMasterpiece007 the difference is huge and vital. in a race where the best swimmers take 24-ish seconds, whereas the best runners would take 5 or 6 to do the same 50m, you want to cover as much distance in the air rather than in the water as you possibly can.

[ItalyiswhereIwant2B]

To be the best at anything takes work.

[pbmcabral]

Swimming is very hard...really hard. But I think that cycling is a bit harder. At the Tour of France they do 3 weeks putting 200 km a day in the montains...doing 40km/h...

[pbmcabral]

Swimming is very hard...really hard. But I think that cycling is a bit harder. At the Tour of France they do 3 weeks putting 200 km a day in the montains...doing 40km/h...

[AgentPaulSmecker]

@pbmcabral

Dont forget boxing...imagine being exhausted like after 1500m free while getting your face and body bashed in by George Foreman;-)

[MrDpsc]

@pbmcabral I'm a swimmer and I have to disagree. There is a very good cycling-guy I know and I'm able to follow him even when he's sprinting. If he tries to swim however, he's not even able to complete a third of the training I do twice a day :)

I don't think you can compare the two. While the 50m sprint is certainly not as hard as a tour of France, the 200m fly is def harder then following the peleton. I thing both sports go to extremes to compete and are not "harder" or "easier"(unlike soccer)

[limesurferTV]

Popovaaa hoogenbandooo

[Sk8HIPHOP4life]

Damm that's is fucking quick im 12 and i swim a 50m freestyle with turn on 37.10 :O

[srvtSwImMeRz]

i just turned 15 this past month and this is my first year swimming, my 50m free at best was a 24.38 and i just got my 50m fly time yesterday, horrible becuz ive never done it before, but it was a 30.02

[BlackMaskStudios]

Swimming is a sport. Everything else is a game.

[MrLosser12345]

swimming is hard as hell. I stopped swimming for 3 months to do track and pwned the track guys cause they had horrible endurance

[HarryBoltonAustralia]

haha it takes me like a minute to swim 50m

[irvinlambchops]

Swimming is like weight resistance training on all of the major muscles in your body plus the aerobic training that runners and soccer players have to go through. its hell, and then there's the water that you constantly swallow when your teamates swim by you and their bow waves smack you in the face when you turn your head to breath

[srvtSwImMeRz]

@irvinlambchops you know whats up lol

[jordanazn]

You know your dedicated to swimming if you smell like chlorine after a long shower.

[bgboy43]

i do 26.85 secs on 50 meter including a flip turn im 15 :(

[BlackMaskStudios]

@bgboy43 At best, I'm a 26.99 at 13. My coach keeps pushing me to try and break 25 sec, but thats hard!

[ceilingtile7]

@bgboy43 u fuckin suck. jk

[bgboy43]

@ceilingtile7 haha thanks i know i do

[Vesivian]

my speed is 46 and im 14 :(

[lucyNphoebe]

@Sk8HIPHOP4life My times 39 lol :-) which club do you swim for? (btw i'm 12 n all lol xxx)

[lucyNphoebe]

@Sk8HIPHOP4life I swim for CADS, and I've been swimming practically all my life, but not with CADS :-) and I dont know my hight lmao^-^ xxx

[lucyNphoebe]

@Sk8HIPHOP4life How old are you now? (if you dont mind me asking obvs lol) x

[Sk8HIPHOP4life]

@lucyNphoebe im 12 ;=)

[lindsb02]

for me to get where i am with swimming i have to do 9 2 hour swim sessions a week, 2 1 hour gym sessions and 2 1 hour spin cycle sessions. being required to sprint for as long as 2 minutes is not intense when you run however water is 4 times as dense as air and you are using all your limbs to the greatest extent you can... it is a lot harder then football

[danielmon4]

i remember my first day of club swim practice i was like man it cant be that hard 2 hours later i couldnt feel my legs or arms i was wobbling while i was getting dressed if i bent down i needed someone to help me up swimming has to be hardest sport ever never knew it was gonna be that hard

[Chnummmm]

haha great race , great swimmers generation

[anna529100]

mmmm those guys are DELICIOUS! i love swimming

[ordude123]

this is crazy I CANT EVEN DO THIS lol

[swimfreeback20]

the training for top level swimming is insane. almost 40,000 yards a day for phelps.

[ps2monster]

haha.. no... Not even Phelps does that much in a day.

[swimfreeback20]

in his olympic training he did. and his intervals are still insane.

[ps2monster]

40,000 yards in a day? Where's your proof?

[swimfreeback20]

alright so he swam twice a day, in the morning and then in sometime in the afternoon. he averaged around 17 or 18 thousand in the morning and aroun 20 thousand in the afternoon. google it or something.

[343596]

By that measurements the hardest sport to preform will in is the one with tha hardest competition.

Football (Soccer for americans) is no doubt the hardes sport in the world to become the best at. But on the other hand you cant really measure how good you are in a sport if it doesnt requre some kind of scientific mesurement (ex: clocked preformance).

[FU0C0]

At the highest level, any sport is hard. The whole point in any sport is to beat your opponent and, to do so, you must push yourself harder than your opponent. At the highest level, not only is your opponent extremely skilled but his/her will to win is also extremely high and, assuming yours is as well, the result of this pairing is the optimum utilisation of your body...which hurts like a bitch.

[zhman93]

water polo is not as hard

take it from someone who does both competeively

[Diaper1rash]

any of u guys wanna play rugby with me

[emilythamxiuhui]

how deep is the pool?

[WesleyAdamsIsEpicPro]

like 12-14 feet

[aXeLbEn12]

wow....that's more than twice my height!lol

[Adamalgorithm]

and everybody here equates hard with exhausting.

I disagree. Golf may not require the same stamina as swimming but it requires fine motor skills and mental control that are as hard to master as ANY aspect of swimming. But then again everybody thinks they are special and their sport is the most unique..... It is just human vanity.

[343596]

no... swimming is in water the human body is not made to be in water. Swimming is the most hard sport.

[canonsucks]

nah, water polo is the hardest :)

[343596]

Yup that´s right.

[DannyDarko667]

dam straight waterpolo's harder.  ;)

[Adamalgorithm]

everybody thinks their sport is the hardest... yeah and everybody thinks they are the most deserving. Come on grow up. Swimming is no harder than chess or golf.

[tonikljucevic]

LOL? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

I've played soccer for 6 years, and when I first started club swimming last year, i almost died from exhaustion. I find swimming competitive far harder than soccer, or football.

[Adamalgorithm]

yes I am kidding you haha I find soccer far harder than swimming. If you play soccer competitively it is just as hard as swimming and veeeeeeeery exhausting. You run and run and run, for at least 90 minutes. If you play soccer socially then I agree with you. Social soccer is easier than competitive swimming!

[andresrojas22]

I think both sports are equally phisical demanding but what makes swimming so difficult is the dam water!even the slightest movement of your body creates a reaction and u have to be always looking not to create much drag in soccer u dont have to worry about the air conditioning you're speed

[343596]

Well waterpolo is prb harder. But that gotta be the hardest sport in the universe.

[gymnast768]

gymnastics is the hardest sport in the universe. anyone can play waterpolo or rugby. maybe they play HORRIBLY, but they can play. 1 in 100,000 can probably do a double twisting double somersault on floor.

[343596]

Its not what you do. Its how you do it. By simply playing underwater rugby you dont go far. By simply doing a double twisting double somersault you are really good no matter how it is preformed.

[gymnast768]

debateable.

[TryToTopThat]

dudes. its just which muscles of yours are strong or not....

swimmers= mostly upper body and some lower body

soccer= all lower body

football= id say lower body and a strong core

track= all lower body

if you dropped a runner in a pool and said swim theyd prolly suck

if you dropped a swimmer on a track and said sprint theyd prolly be slower.

[ps2monster]

Disagree with swimmers. Swimmers need pretty much everything. Strong upper body, core and legs. Each being just important.

[TryToTopThat]

yeah true

but still majority is endurance and upperbody

[ABCba5tard]

@tonikljucevic its kinda easy

you just need to try make ur strokes fast, proper stream line and and just win gold

[appalloisis]

@ABCba5tard dude, your an idiot. competitive swimming is without a doubt the one hardest physical stains you could ever put your body through. for example, my first swim meet i threw up then passed out in the middle of a 100m butterfly, i thought i was in amazing shape just because i had done football the year before and had a six pack, i'm going to Olympic trails in 2012, and i can honestly s.ay that the only sport that can come close to the cardiovascular torture is wrestling

[ABCba5tard]

@appalloisis i do that and i can bear it...... ur just pussy and cant handle hard training.....

[appalloisis]

@ABCba5tard and i've been training extremely hard most of my life, averaging in about 47 miles a week, i am going to the Olympics next year and i am going to beat eamon sullivan

[ABCba5tard]

@appalloisis sure u are

[XspaceGraphicTuts]

@tonikljucevic definately..i swim like 4 hours everyday its sooo difficult

[iwillbeWAITINGforyou]

HELLO?!! earth to you. why don't you try swimming first? duh?

[yankeefan37845]

WOW! Swimming is arguably the hardest sport on the face of the earth, along with Water Polo. Swimming requires the use of every muscle in the body, which equates to exhaustion. I would love to see you swim, if you think it is so easy.

[dallowsaratoga]

@Adamalgorithm You're an idiot if you say that, You're comparing CHESS to Swimming? That's the most ridiculous thing I've EVER heard in my life. Chess is the LEAST most athletically demanding sport I can think of. Anyone who thinks that Chess is harder than swimming (you) is either high or really stupid.

[Adamalgorithm]

@dallowsaratoga haha you obviously do not have a clue what you are talking about. YOu are like a creationist explaining to a scientist how stupid he is for thinking religion true. Perhaps you should play competitive chess before making a fool of yourself.

[swimmer324]

swimming is easy one of the hardest sports...and yes

[imchill123]

People think swimming is some easy sport...

let me just tell u..

its way harder than most sports.

and its definately harder than football, or baseball, or basketball.

[swimmer324]

im 14 and i do 24 in shortcourse

[andresrojas22]

oh really?

[justineswim]

For everyone who thinks swimming is to easy screw you its hard Michael Phelps is the Babe Ruth of Baseball ok

If swimming was any easyeir it would be Football

[salim017489]

@justineswim totally agree man I've been swimming competitively for a little over 2 years and I have fallen in love with it and it is far harder than any other sport. those ball games are just games swimming is an actual sport.

[hsm3freak]

@justineswim that rly is true. i joined my highschool swim team thinking it would be easy. it was actually really hard and tiring. but now i love it!

[1600s]

i like their legs from the underwater shot.

[MiKe93TuBe]

a 27 in long course or short course?

[Fascia299]

ai, ai ai

[conhof]

dang my 50 free time is only a 27 second

[ryder788]

27 is pretty fast dude. I've never been able to go below 29 no matter how hard I try. Bollocks.

[strokemychicken]

hehe, i just turned 15 and i am almost 24 seconds (short course) :p

[ryder788]

15 years old is where most swimmers start to peak. Your time is pretty good. Your long course in the 50m pool should be about 25+ seconds after adding 1 second to that. Still impressive.

[chrisot4]

from yards to meters you add like 3.4 seconds

[ryder788]

That's for 50m or 100m? 3.4s is quite substantial.

[chrisot4]

you add like 3.4 or 3.5 for every 50m cause its about 13ft difference between 50yds and 50m

[343596]

No.

I think:

Sprint peak: 18-26

Distance peak: 16-22

[ryder788]

Well, Michael Phelps starts to win medals at the age of 15 although he is still peaking. He definitely STARTS to peak at around 15 just like Ian Thorpe.

[SqueekyBootsShine]

thats right xcept if you are a woman. Then your sprint peak is 41 lol

[dallowsaratoga]

@conhof Meters or yards?

[conhof]

dang my 50 free time is only a 27 second

[YourVideoisFake]

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[yayo69gorgeous]

all are handsome delicious............

[1niudnereb]

roland was so young jajajajaj

[tallswede68]

do you have the final?

[bleuzy9]

...WHAT AR THEY...DOLPHINS?

[ozwunder69]

yeah the aussies going 21 flat soon!

[343596]

No. Only Sullivan.