Precisionswim wrote:
I am not claiming that it is only being unprepared that is the cause of these deaths. I am just simply pointing out the correlation of the high number of swimming deaths compared to the other two domains. This correlation does seem to point to the fact that there is something about swimming in particular that is effecting these athletes at a larger percentage. Precisionswimming.com
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You kinda are...its exactly what you said:
Precisionswim wrote:
This leads me to believe that the swimming conditions and the athlete's preparation to handle such conditions play a large factor in these deaths. As coaches in the sport we need to do all we can to prepare these athletes for what they will be encountering. Perhaps it is not a swimming problem but a swim coaching problem.
The statistics do NOT agree with your "belief".
The swim comes first. Having a cardiac event in the water, is highly likely to be fatal. Being "fit" decreases your probability of having a cardiac event, but doesn't eliminate it (obviously). Being EVEN MORE fit doesn't make much difference, so the "excellent fitness" and the "pretty good fitness" athletes have very similar probabilities of having an event. It happens everywhere. If it happens in the water....
What if we did triathlon's backwards? Would the same % of people have heart attacks during the run, but perhaps half of them survive? Then the death rates would be similar to other non-water based endurance events.
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Tom_hampton: Jun 13, 19 10:27