Black swimmers

I noticed a while back at some swimming world cup event that there were no Black or Indian swimmers, divers or whatever other water sports.

Isn´t this a bit odd considering how many talented black athletes there are.

Or is there a reason for it, heavier bones, bums sticks up too much etc.?

Note :- this isn´t meant to be a racist thread so if anyone´s offended then, well get a thicker skin.

I guess there arent any african american people who wanna be swimmers.

I'm a swimmer, our school team has numerous Latino and Asian athletes. And one African-American. I myself am Caucasian, but honestly the ratio is only a slight majority - the team is pretty diverse.

However, I have noticed that elsewhere the margin becomes evidently exponential in difference, with many many more light-skinned swimmers than dark-skinned ones. Whereas this applies to numbers, it holds no truth when applied to skill. So I would not know the reason for the apparent lack of darker-skinned swimmers.

It's to do with muscle density.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
I noticed a while back at some swimming world cup event that there were no Black or Indian swimmers, divers or whatever other water sports.

Isn´t this a bit odd considering how many talented black athletes there are.

Or is there a reason for it, heavier bones, bums sticks up too much etc.?

Note :- this isn´t meant to be a racist thread so if anyone´s offended then, well get a thicker skin.

because its a world event similar to olympics.. countries in say Africa and other Eastern ones do not have a lot of opportunity to swim.. In a place like America theres lots of minorities who swim.

Well I think a simplier answer would be that Africa and Middle Eastern countries dont have alot of water, so its kinda of hard to swim professional at a high level against people from North America or water rich areas.
The same thing goes for skiers and the Winter Olmpiques.

For minorties in Canada, US and other places, I have no idea. Maybe, it's not interesting for minorites because some sports arent interesting. Look at Canada, it's most popular sport is hockey. Most minorities dont play it, but play soccer, basketball and baseball more.

But it's definitly not muscle density.

I don't know so I'm going to make up ridiculous hypotheses.

1. Black people in other countries are too poor to practice in a pool.

2. Black people in America are too busy playing basketball and other big sports so they don't care about swimming (plus they too don't have access to swimming pools).

3. Their giant penises create too much drag in the water. 😉

Point #3 is incorrect because I'm a great swimmer.

Muscle density.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Point #3 is incorrect because I'm a great swimmer.

Muscle density.

Im also a great swimmer and have an enormous Penis, can´t be that🙂

It can´t be "lack of water" because in countries like France, UK, US, Aussie land etc there are lots of darker skinned folk with equal rights and opertunitys to swim.

Muscle density? dunno this would make them heavier, but stronger so it equals itself out or not?

Well, I'm obviously joking to an extent on my points, but the access to a pool does have some points. There is quite a bit of blacks in the US and I don't know their poverty levels in other countries but here there is definitely less opportunities for African Americans to get to a pool as their is whites. Large predominantly black schools are less likely to have as much funding and in hand are less likely to have a pool. Also, just living by water isn't enough, it does have to be a pool for them to practice in because of things such as turning around properly. But again, I was much more than half-heartedly joking.

I swam for about 5 years competitevly in the DC metro area and the entire time I believe we actually hosted a meet and we had one team from DC come that was black. My team had several black team members.

Muscle density isn't it cuz I was a big guy at 6 foot 2 and 225 and swimming twice a day with a weights 3 times a week and 3 runs in the week.