Black Sports : Why don't any black countries have any Olypmic Swimmers?

[Corvo]

From what I have seen, it's a matter of access mostly. I did not learn to swim till I was nine. I was able to learn because I had access at a new middle school who had a pool(PS 145). I had a hard time at first for I could not float to save myself, even when I filled my lungs fully. but I could swim under water the full length of the pool. I do think our bone density is a factor for some, as is fat ratio. I was a wire for most of my life.

I did keep swimming when ever I got a chance, I swam for one year in high school, but even the coach did not like me. I became a scuba diver at 15, and have gone diving to many parts of the world. At eighteen I was even able to free-dive to 90 feet. So my take is that we can do it, and even excell at it.

http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/sites/default/files/kdawson4/files/swimming_surfing_in_africa.pdf

Please read the above, you will be very surprised indeed.

AXE

West Africans by the sea swam better then the Brits, read above.

 

[bientempo]

You would think that most people from the Caribbean would know how to swim, but alas not so. In fact most of the fishermen have no idea, they just hope the boat keeps floating! I know of many Dominicans that have no idea of how to swim, and they have lived beside the sea all their lives.

 

[Therious]

swimming is a life requirement , if you cannot you may die. i went to a high school with a large African american student body and w had a great swim team. swimming should be pushed more in black neighborhoods/countries.

I saw a report while back of comunity pools being closed in black areas, I think on espn.

 

[skuderjaymes]

Why should their be any?

 

[Therious]

Why should their be any?

if you mean pools in Black neighborhoods,why shouldn't there?