I'm not going to read all of that bull**** because this aegument ended when you didn't understand the need to name every player Eldrick Woods has beaten. You missed your own, point.
Swimming is probably as a whole just as big world wide as North American football.
I could give two ****s really but you're a bit dense if you don't think guys that can swim at world class speed at different distances aren't elite athletes.
It borderlines some guys I knew in college who actually took the Bo Jackson when is that Tour de France thing seriously.