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r/facepalm • u/nonetakenback • Aug 12 '24
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Also this is the Olympics not a highschool team. You kinda have to be at the top of the gene pool to be in the Olympics. I mean take Michael Phelps as an example. He has a wingspan of 6 feet 7 inches.
14 u/vaz_deferens Aug 12 '24 Wembanyama has an 8’ foot wingspan, why would he not be a swimmer instead? /s 3 u/TheSorceIsFrong Aug 12 '24 Arms too thin to get any push from the water 4 u/pmMEyourWARLOCKS Aug 12 '24 Phelps has wings? Hardly seems fair. 3 u/Dhydjtsrefhi Aug 13 '24 What's crazy to me is that some of them are small to normal sized - like one on the US team is 5'4" and 140lbs 1 u/Unicorntella Aug 13 '24 That man is hot af tho -2 u/i_heart_pasta Aug 12 '24 More like your parents need to be at the top of the money pool. 19 u/Razor-eddie Aug 12 '24 Well, that's not true at all. https://www.world.rugby/news/948436/new-zealand-retain-olympic-womens-rugby-sevens-gold-in-paris This is women's rugby. It's not exactly dressage, which is SWIMMING in money. 9 u/kurburux Aug 12 '24 Some athletes are refugees and basically have no parents anymore. Doubt they have a lot of money either. 3 u/Old_Ladies Aug 12 '24 For many winter sports but not all sports.
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Wembanyama has an 8’ foot wingspan, why would he not be a swimmer instead? /s
3 u/TheSorceIsFrong Aug 12 '24 Arms too thin to get any push from the water
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Arms too thin to get any push from the water
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Phelps has wings? Hardly seems fair.
What's crazy to me is that some of them are small to normal sized - like one on the US team is 5'4" and 140lbs
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That man is hot af tho
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More like your parents need to be at the top of the money pool.
19 u/Razor-eddie Aug 12 '24 Well, that's not true at all. https://www.world.rugby/news/948436/new-zealand-retain-olympic-womens-rugby-sevens-gold-in-paris This is women's rugby. It's not exactly dressage, which is SWIMMING in money. 9 u/kurburux Aug 12 '24 Some athletes are refugees and basically have no parents anymore. Doubt they have a lot of money either. 3 u/Old_Ladies Aug 12 '24 For many winter sports but not all sports.
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Well, that's not true at all.
https://www.world.rugby/news/948436/new-zealand-retain-olympic-womens-rugby-sevens-gold-in-paris
This is women's rugby. It's not exactly dressage, which is SWIMMING in money.
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Some athletes are refugees and basically have no parents anymore. Doubt they have a lot of money either.
For many winter sports but not all sports.
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u/Old_Ladies Aug 12 '24
Also this is the Olympics not a highschool team. You kinda have to be at the top of the gene pool to be in the Olympics. I mean take Michael Phelps as an example. He has a wingspan of 6 feet 7 inches.