hardest sports

[Byron]

http://www.thetoptens.com/hardest-sports
97 submissions are made for the hardest sports on this website and no.2 is swimming.
Second paragraph by the writer speaks of something tight and painful and taking 20 minutes to put on so I guess he can't be talking about speedos.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

He is referring to the now outlawed body suits. And yes, they take that long to put on.

[Byron]

Yes - I think I need to review my own post here - a correction to begin with as I should have said first paragraph and not second when quoting the time
of twenty minutes.
My first thought was that time must be about wearing the full body suit as the remark could not possibly apply to simple jammers. That brings me to the problem of a date for this blog - nowhere can I find it except there are comments from February and April 2012 as a clue.
I now wonder also whether I should have said she and not he for the author. In rereading "bathing suits" and "most unflattering bathing suit in the world"
(when emerging wet) I get the feeling that these are not words likely to have been written by a male swimmer.
There are extensive responses to assert the endurance required for intensive swim training and, although seeming to be mostly gender-neutral, one does specifically refer to talking to "the other girls".

[shaulis]

On the right side of the article it says the article was written almost 5 years ago (4 years 244 days) give or take some days. Supposedly the article was updated today (8/5/2013) I don't know how you would find out that claim to be true.

[kumu]

Its a little arbitrary to say what is the hardest sport. I would not like to run against the Chicago Bears defense or get towed into a 30 ft. wave at Peahi or Mavericks. I wouldn't be interested in swimming the English Channel or to Catalina from San Pedro. Climbing Everest or K2, no thanks. You would have a pretty good chance of surviving gymnastics or swimming or figure skating, but most of us would be in serious trouble with the Bears, Peahi, Everest, etc.

[Torchwatch]

The hardest sport is the sport that you personally cannot do.
To claim that the sport that you can do and enjoy training for is the hardest is disingenuous.
Many sports are easy at entry level and become increasingly difficult as you specialise; anyone can kick a ball around or dance about cheering.
Since I have never skied and now wear glasses that combination of cross country skiing and rifle shooting in the Winter Olympics seems to have a very high entry level difficulty. Harder even than ski jumping, which anyone could try once.