re: What sport is easiest to excel in?

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Would love to see you put together a long distance run with your superior mentality. What are you good for? 10 meters.

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well considering I've completed several 1/2 marathons, a 1/2 ironman and countless sprints and Olympics...I'm pretty sure I can handle 10 meters

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This was my first thought as well, but it also requires OP to define what he means by excel. If it's just to be good/great at a sport, then distance running is probably the easiest. If it's to be one of the best in the world, or D-1 level; then it would probably need to be one of the skilled competitions that somehow get lumped into sports.

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As to any running event, I can see how it's "approachable" in the sense that with reasonable effort most people can become competent at it. It doesn't require hyper specialized training or equipment or size or strength, etc.

But to become an elite runner, you're competing in a huge pool, and statistically it probably becomes one of the hardest to excel at.

Any sport where people can reasonably play without a lot of obstacles (size, equipment, location) is going to be very hard to be elite obviously, simply because you'll be competing with so many people. It's why it's threading a needle to play basketball in the US - every one of us knew some kid who was a great ball handler or could shoot lights out in pickup games but couldn't sniff a HS team because of the competition/size/etc. components. It's just too big a pool. Whereas if you're 6'3 225 at 16, they're going to find a role for you on a varsity FB team unless you're just completely unathletic.

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well considering I've completed several 1/2 marathons, a 1/2 ironman and countless sprints and Olympics...I'm pretty sure I can handle 10 meters

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sounds like you have pretty decent cardio

a mountain to pop up near my home and I did compete against them, when I went to Colorado, I did a lot of races

oh and I'm old now and don't have the no fear factor that I used to have

BASE jumping. All who don’t die excel…and those who died might have too.

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sounds like you have pretty decent cardio

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I dont think that dumbass even knows that 10 meters is only 32 feet

So you just like making yourself look dumb for no reason?

Basketball. Might not excel but if you are 7 ft tall then you would be better than a majority of the planet

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But to become an elite runner, you're competing in a huge pool, and statistically it probably becomes one of the hardest to excel at.

Any sport where people can reasonably play without a lot of obstacles (size, equipment, location) is going to be very hard to be elite obviously, simply because you'll be competing with so many people. It's why it's threading a needle to play basketball in the US - every one of us knew some kid who was a great ball handler or could shoot lights out in pickup games but couldn't sniff a HS team because of the competition/size/etc. components. It's just too big a pool. Whereas if you're 6'3 225 at 16, they're going to find a role for you on a varsity FB team unless you're just completely unathletic.

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I guess that's true too. It depends what OP means by "easiest" too. Anyone can train to be a distance runner and get pretty good at it. You can't train to be 6'6