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Being an Olympic athlete means one has to spend a lot of money on hard drugs.
Um the USADA will ensure you are OK, international rules do not apply here, it would be helpful if you were an informant though??? That is some training there
Imagine playing tennis now! It has to be one of the most expensive because gear wears very very quickly.
Now, lets do a video on asian athelics 😂 basic things like food is a struggle….let alone anything else
Provided you have parents that are willing to drive, swimming – even at a national level – is quite accessible. My club fees were a couple hundred bucks per year. Now compare that to the $$$$ parents spend on other sports like gymnastics.
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Pretty good hustle when only a dozen of kids ever make it to the world elite stage
So misleading. You went for a sensational video instead of trying to cover reality. Swimming really is not that expensive of a sport compared to others, and all of the numbers here were kind of "worst case scenario"
They can end up here? You mean end up a woman?
Not that accurate, WSJ- as a parent of two elite level High School swimmers, most high school level elite swimmers are sponsored and the cost of suits is covered. Those club fees are also crazy high- it's about 1500 in our state for elite level and it took 8-10 years to even get to this part, my kids train 30+ hours a week and this covers EVERYTHING (gym/trainers/coaches/club dues/coaches costs..etc) States that have official volunteers have lower dues. California is high because they have to pay their officials. I am a volunteer N3 USA Swimming official and give hundreds of hours per year of service to our club, high school and USA Swimming. That's the trade off. Also tech suits aren't even ALLOWED until age 13. By then, quite honestly, if you're not at least partially subsidized by Speedo or others, you might be in the wrong sport (just sayin')- Come-on WSJ- you're scaring people away! There are also PLENTY of scholarships, especially to those from underserved populations and communities for USA Swimming, check out Diversity Select Camp and other programs. Maybe do better research next time on your content. Very erroneous. My kids are looking forward to swimming D1 in college and hopefully making it to 2028 Olympic Trials- Keep Swimming! It's a great sport with great people!- The biggest cost is FOOD! They eat a lot! 🙂 Also flexibility and time, as two health care providers, it was IMPOSSIBLE for us to both see patients clinically so I took a step back in a different direction so someone could take them to and from practices and competition. I don't regret it at all- but that was the sacrifice.
+ all of the years the parents have to support
Not just swimming, but most Olympic sports is where the meritocracy myth most heavily resides. This is not to discount the tremendous feat that it is to be an Olympian in any sport, nor otherwise claim that it is impossible to be an Olympian without this level of investment, however, often this feat is grounded in a level of investment that is limitedly accessible to a historically privileged elite. It would be a fair assessment to say that elite sports are economically elite as well, which is especially apparent at the NCAA level where this lack of socioeconomic and racial diversity is explicitly evident across the majority of the sports offered in both the men's and women's side.
To be a successful Olympian..you need to be rich and most of all..well talented and with passion for the sport.
Westchester County, NY, is one of the most expensive counties in the country. Washington DC is a high cost metro area. Seems suspect that they use those locations as the "sample" prices for club fees…
This is kind of BS if swimming is anything like track. The goal isn’t always the Olympics, it’s a shoe contract, the world championships, the diamond league, etc
So if you wanna be a professional swimmer your gonna go broke and i you make it into the olympics your getting 1% of what you invested in your self
If you are in it for the money, there are other better sports for that, football, basketball …
This is funny on the cost compared to ice hockey. 5K a year barely cover 10u travel hockey 10K-30K per years very low estimate for hockey
This is a drop in the bucket compared to fencing. 5k a year? Try a month!
I think I'm crazy enough to found this video
Track and field is in an identical situation, with the exception that going pro gives you an opportunity to earn prize money and appearance fees
Im dirt poor and have been swimming 6 years minus the time from covid, and affording the tech suits and gym membership and meet costs have all been doable. The only real barrier to improvement has been to have the disciplin to do the things i know will improve me. Drills, yoga, bike riding, weightlifting. Theres always highly skilled people to get advice from .
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swimming is one of the least accessible sports financially, running would be a more accurate representation of an accessible sport
Real pros use budget gear.
The cost is Hundreds of thousands to millions for many. The % of people who go to the Olympics is small. The percent that make any money is very very small.
in china they train kids at birth for free
Uhhh micheal andrew did not skip collge to goto the olympics, hes gone anyways and the reason he skipped NCAAs is because he WENT PRO AT 14 and became the yongest pro ever thus he is disqualified from amateur comps what a load of misinformation in this, why dont you have a story on all the great inner citie swim teams there are?!? Read the swim bible on coaching inner cities teams, there have been books and many articles on this already.
huh? why does the tech suit wear out that quickly if its so expensive?
I play college water polo. I take it seriously, but my first and most important concern is: am I having FUN? If the answer is ever no, then I would stop. I play because I love the sport. I don't care about medals or fame, and I'm not holding my breath for any of that.
You forgot about the cost it is to maintain proper eating
I don't know anybody that spends that much on tech suits. And nobody buys more than 1 pair of goggles per year.
If everyone had unlimited money, most of the current Olympians would still be Olympians because it’s the mental aspect that has the most impact
You guys missed the most important and possibly second largest cost…. Food.
Michael Andrew trains by him self using usrpt
Thanks for such knowledgeable video.
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Actual cost of training $50k+
Team USA payout per gold Medal for 2020/21 summer Olympics:
$37,500
A rich man's sport or for that matter women's or transgender seems to be the vogue these daze/
"Relatively accessible sport like swimming" Bro do they know what the race breakdown is for swimming in the US?
What club program coat $5,000 a year 🥴 mine is just $720. There are many to choose from in all areas don't just settle for the most expensive
God given talent doesn't require all this
I have realized that all sports are just businesses and financial traps for most families hoping their kids could eventually be the top ones. Look at the money, time and sacrifice that you have to put in with time, I don't think it is worthy at all. For me, I just want my kids to build up both physical and mental strengths through training and competitions at local clubs and that's it – going pro will be a bad option.
It is so different in the US to in the UK
Im a college swimmer and these numbers are really exaggerated. Mostly because at the beginning you don’t spend anything besides club fees and then find out if you have potential to get to the next level. I didnt buy a tech suit until I was probably 4-5 years into the sport and nobody starts at nations capital or anything like that usually at an extremely low cost club / ymca and if you have potential and excel at it you may move to a better one that will cost maybe $1-2k a year. Plus if you are at the point that you need more than 1-2 tech suits per year you definitely have it paid for (either by college, sponsor, team etc.) Most swimmers with great potential dont use private lessons because they will be at a club with a coach they trust for all of that, so its not really an add-on cost. Last, goggles and caps are extremely inexpensive maximum $150 per year unless again, you can have them paid for by someone else in which case you would probably just get new everything for every meet. Its a snowball effect really, once you get truly great and show a lot of potential the resources will find their way to you not vice versa. Travel is also negligible because especially when youre younger most meets are very local and within dricing distance. Maybe one travel meet per year is really needed if its a qualification meet – which you would first need to qualify for at a local meet (sectionals, junior nationals would be examples of qualifying meets). Not affording a 2nd or 3rd tech suit or private trainer or the best club in the country is not a valid reason for people not succeeding at the sport. Given the median income in america it is extremely accessible and videos like this are only tarnishing the hard work the top swimmers put into it, they arent just great because they have money.