Kids who grow up in homes with proper nutrition run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. Their bones have never been sapped of calcium, their teeth never threatened with scurvy. It’s not fair or safe to have them compete with malnourished kids who grew up eating fast food and tv dinners.
I swam competitively in high school, graduated 2005. I actually ran into a guy yesterday who was five years ahead of me, but an absolute stud of a swimmer at the time. Haven’t seen him in 20-25 years at this point, long time, I was just a kid.
We get to talking and I mention how I go to the Y we both swam for and I look at the time board, and how none of the old names are up there any longer; in fact, we talk about how the times on the girls board are now faster than the times the boys set back when we swam.
There have been advances in technique, and how they practice, and the types of suits they wear, but the main thing we could figure was it was access to nutritional information and the like. Back when we did it was amateur hour. Kids nowadays can get custom-tailored meal programs for their training regimen, and that’s on top of much more personalized training and everything. Every facet has been absolutely tech’d out, and kids are going much, much further (and faster). What only Olympians had access to when I was a kid is now something anyone has access to.
Yeah, in general nobody should compete with anybody as long as we don’t live in a fully automated gay space communist utopia were everyone’s disadvantages are compensated. I’m sure this is what transphobes actually want
Id agree. I grew up poor and we definitely do fast food or tv dinners. Beans and rice. Saving fat from meats. Sleep for dinner. Cabbage and rice or sometimes if youre lucky, cabbage and sausage.
Kids who grow up in homes with proper nutrition run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. Their bones have never been sapped of calcium, their teeth never threatened with scurvy. It’s not fair or safe to have them compete with malnourished kids who grew up eating fast food and tv dinners.
I swam competitively in high school, graduated 2005. I actually ran into a guy yesterday who was five years ahead of me, but an absolute stud of a swimmer at the time. Haven’t seen him in 20-25 years at this point, long time, I was just a kid.
We get to talking and I mention how I go to the Y we both swam for and I look at the time board, and how none of the old names are up there any longer; in fact, we talk about how the times on the girls board are now faster than the times the boys set back when we swam.
There have been advances in technique, and how they practice, and the types of suits they wear, but the main thing we could figure was it was access to nutritional information and the like. Back when we did it was amateur hour. Kids nowadays can get custom-tailored meal programs for their training regimen, and that’s on top of much more personalized training and everything. Every facet has been absolutely tech’d out, and kids are going much, much further (and faster). What only Olympians had access to when I was a kid is now something anyone has access to.
Yeah, in general nobody should compete with anybody as long as we don’t live in a fully automated gay space communist utopia were everyone’s disadvantages are compensated. I’m sure this is what transphobes actually want
You must be pretty privileged if that’s how you imagine poverty food
Id agree. I grew up poor and we definitely do fast food or tv dinners. Beans and rice. Saving fat from meats. Sleep for dinner. Cabbage and rice or sometimes if youre lucky, cabbage and sausage.
Made me real good with seasonings though.
I’m an American, so yes I am privileged and yes that is poverty food in the United States.
They didn’t specify poverty, you can be malnourished without being in poverty. Especially on a typical American diet.