We’re back with your weekly dose of swimming’s TopTenTweets, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.
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The Ice Cube was just way too convenient of a name https://t.co/E6NJ0rRCln
— Lilly King (@_king_lil) January 31, 2022
Honestly would be surprised if this is the first winter Olympics venue to be called the Ice Cube.
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🇨🇳 Beijing Olympics 2008 when 🇺🇸 Michael Phelps’ broke the Men's 400m IM. Today, it becomes second longest standing swimming world record ever🔥
Will Phelps’ WR become the longest standing of all-time in men’s swimming events? #swimming
Read More 👇https://t.co/fyRpTfRrTt pic.twitter.com/mfZf5LM5w1
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) January 31, 2022
Who, if anyone, do you think can break this record?
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What a huge bonus to chat with Urby at the UCLA vs Cal swim meet! You never get old, always get better. Love you @jonurb #Legend #moveit! pic.twitter.com/iNoc8MgUie
— Cyndi Gallagher (@Gobruins27) January 30, 2022
Two legends walk onto a pool deck…
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Tomorrow is National Backwards Day. To celebrate – try this fun drill 🥸 Post your results in the comments below👇! 🎥 @novamastersswimming pic.twitter.com/2OaWsyLSFx
— Masters Swimming (@MastersSwimming) January 30, 2022
Forget 75s with fins. How fast can you do a 75 backward?
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💥 Today, we announce the 24-match schedule for Season 4 2022, planned to kick off on June 3rd, 2022 in North America. Detailed information is available on our website 👉 don’t waste your time, use the link https://t.co/ci6XhYvyqS#iswimleague #isl2022
— International Swimming League (@iswimleague) January 28, 2022
24?!?! OK ISL!!!
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One last time in the pool where it all started. Tomorrow 11:30am. pic.twitter.com/HlPhO1F80p
— Nick Albiero (@AlbieroNick) January 29, 2022
And that’s what you call a full circle.
4.
Back: Brendan Burns
Breast: Brendan Hansen
Fly: Brendan Hyland (IRL)
Free: Brendan Meyer@swimswamnews https://t.co/i3sCe4mInY— Burns (@_brendanburns) January 25, 2022
Can’t believe I forgot this one.
3.
It's another LEN swimmer of the year award for Adam Peaty off the back of a stellar 2021. Tom Dean and Duncan Scott also mentioned in dispatches in 4th and 5th, while Kathleen Dawson took third place in the women's category.
— pullbuoy (@pullbuoy) January 31, 2022
Who won LEN dancer of the year???
2.
No way https://t.co/RuDkKD0wuF
— ⚜️Léon⚜️ (@leon_marchand) January 31, 2022
What he said.
1.
Michael Phelps is missing🤨 https://t.co/kv5yWqmvUy
— Adriel Sanes (@AdrielSanes) January 30, 2022
Again… what he said.
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55% of all people in the world (43% of all men and a staggering 68% of all women – acc to Gallup) cannot swim
ANYONE can kick a flipping ball.
Clearly swimming and other water-based sports have an inherent degree of difficulty that was not considered at all here…
Mainly that you need to know how to not drown first.
The last two tweets are comedy gold
I played baseball for over a decade. Trust me, it has no business being even in the top 30.
Cricket everybody ?
“A few studies have determined this.”
No methodology presented, no actual studies offered, just a list that happens to place sports largely played in North America all as the hardest, and those often contested as not being sports right at the bottom of the sheet.
More like Biased America Sports.
Rugby lower than american football and soccer is pretty weird
The fact that SWIMMING WAS LOWER THAN FREAKEN DIVING!!! Diving is hard but its not just that, HAND BALL AS WELL!!!! I am gonna stop now because if I say more I am gonna break something!
I looked at that list in full and part of the reason it was so low was because it was based off of different categories. Each category would be scored individually and then added up for a total point score. For example, if I remember correctly, distance swimming was ranked 3rd or so in the endurance category. The reason why swimming is so low is because it ranked low in the “danger” and “fear/mental strength” categories. I certainly disagree with this reasoning, but if anyone’s wondering why this is, it’s because diving is more dangerous (as are most of the other sports)
The one that got me was auto racing being above swimming. What the actual ****?
Swimming is obviously insultingly low on the list but auto racing is one of the few sports I don’t have a problem being ranked higher (assuming they mean Formula 1 and not NASCAR). Controlling an F1 car and taking tight corners at 180 miles per hour with other cars inches away requires incredible amounts of focus, composure, and athleticism.
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
Look at this article, as I think that the list above uses a similar criteria. On this list, each sport is given a certain score for each category (“edurance”, “power”, etc), and then are added up at the end to find which sport is hardest. There are two categories here that really stand out: “nerve” and “hand eye coordination”. Neither of these is really that important for swimming, so the sport is kind of underrated next to dangerous sports, such as diving, for the “nerve” category and ball sports such as handball for the ” hand eye coordination” category.
I don’t agree with this way of ranking, but I do think that this… Read more »
Lower than BASEBALL?? Stand around for 95% of the game and go inside if it starts to drizzle…
As a swimmer, I wish it were not so, but try hitting a major league curve ball.
Try doing a 4:03 400 LCM IM…
Would the average person have a better shot hitting a major league curve ball or completing a legal 400 IM?
Are you defining hitting as “making contact with”? Or getting a bse hit?
Getting a base hit. Btw, one person in history has gone a 4:03 400 im. Hundreds have to hit major league curves. Willing to bet that there are more people in the world who could do a 400 im legally than could hit above .200 in the major leagues