why is there no good black swimmers in the world ?

Answer 1

They know how to swim!?

Answer 2

Because black people only do sports which they feel identified with, they won-t go to a swimming pool were all the people are white and have a possibility to be discriminated. There are sports such as basketball or athletics which are kind of black property.
On the other hand, maybe there are good black swimmers, but they are never shown because only 1 or two from each country compete at high level and there are countries which the black population is of 1 per cent or less or there are no black people at all.

Answer 3

Think people are jumping to the racism conclusion far too quickly. This is a perfectly legitimate question as there does not seem to be any malice in the style of the question.

Anyway in answer;

Maybe Al Campanis was right about the swimmers. Campanis was the Dodgers' vice president for player personnel when he bumbled his way through a late-night television interview with Ted Koppel. Said that you didn't see many black competitive swimmers because they lacked "buoyancy."

Said that you didn't see many black managers or general managers in major league baseball because they lacked "some of the necessities." Got fired two days later after 44 years with the Dodgers, the team that shattered big-league baseball's color line by signing Jackie Robinson.

Campanis might have sounded like a babbling, senile bigot that night but he apparently had the sink-or-swim part right. Jon Entine says so in his new, controversial book, "Taboo."

"Numerous studies over many decades have consistently shown that blacks have denser skeletons and that elite black athletes have lower levels of body fat than whites or Asians,"

Further reading at: http://www.jonentine.com/reviews/philly_daily_news.htm

Answer 4

Because the "return on investment was non-existent".

Swimming was an amature sport that required many years of training and considerable expendature of money for coaching, travel to events (and all related expenses) for all those years. Because of this, Upper Middle Class and Wealthy was, basically, the only people that could afford to pay these expenses for their children.

Even for world class Olympic swimmers, their swimming careers end with little more than Trophies and Medals. This is still mostly true today.

If you look into it, you will find only the top Olympic finishers get endorsement deals etc. as a return for all the years and expenses of becoming a world class swimmer.

When swimming becomes a highly paid professional event, we will see many people of all ethnic groups involved in the sport.

Answer 5

First-Maritza Correia, Michael Norment, and Roland Schoeman are ALL competitive black swimmers.
Second-there is less access to swimming facilities in urban black neighborhoods. It remains a racially biased sport primarily for this reason. Just like golf and tennis. Read anything by Tiger Woods, and Venus and Serena Williams.
It has NOTHING to do with weight, bone structure, or ethnic skill.
Third-you (and most of the ridiculously un-informed people who answered your question) are ignorant bigots. Read a book. Learn something about the world. Get a life.
Fourth-as blacks close the socio-economic gap with white they WILL excel in swimming as well.

Answer 6

Have you ever heard of Suriname's Anthony Nesty He was the first black person to win a gold metal. Now I am white but jsut because there arent many black swimmers doesnt give you the right to give that misconception There are plenty of talented swimmers on the Stanford swim team and everyone of them has been to the olympics and gotten a metal.

Answer 7

I'm sure there's tons of awesome black swimmers, this is an incredible over generalization. But if you think of the anatomy of black people they were not built for the cold or the water. They were built for the sun and dryness. Thus, the dark skin, curly hair, tenacity, etc.

Answer 8

As long as this question is not intending to be a racist one, I'm quite happy to answer. Black people, white people and every other type of people have different skills. You'll find a higher representation in different sports by different ethnicities. And remember folks... White Men Can't Jump.

PS - to anyone who takes my last point the wrong way, it's just a reference to a pretty lame movie with a rubbish title. I'm just making the point that dumb racist judgements such as these have been made in both directions.

Answer 9

there was an article about this in splash magazine a while ago...they are good, just not the best? Understand? There are a lot of black swimmers in MN that are much faster than me, just not on a national level...comprende?

Answer 10

Dunno. The heaviness people have suggested might be right. Also for swimming you need completely different muscles to running right? So maybe white genetics are just more finely tuned for lightweight bodies with big arm muscles.

And to the person who said white people can't jump: I'm pretty sure the majority of high jumpers are white too!

Answer 11

Because of the composition of muscolar fibers. They have more heavy musc., so they're better in running, because more weith you can apply to the floor wider is the distance you can cover with your leg. In swimming is the opposite because you are into a fluid.