Water Polo Is The Hardest Olympic Sport. Here's How Team USA Trains To Win | Second To None 

I play it and you get used to it and it becomes easy

How? Did someone hold your head under water?

have fat on or your body makes it so much easir

well a lot of us have a background of swimming. I never have had a problem with drowning because ive been swimming since i was 8.

And delivered a fn strike 😂😂😂😂 i thought i was the only one to catch that crazy movement

Good on her!

They didn't medal 😢

You should have...just to see what happens 😂

maybe wear water wings next practice.

it's France, they're men

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haha i still consider it to be

@@mars_mellow5842 Why?

@jjw00dw3 this is way easier

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Absolutely not. These drivers are insanely talented but ultimately they are divas who only compete against other drivers who are not the best in the world. There are way to many political, financial reasons behind driver signings to teams and also the car that adds a handicap. They are not competing against the best of the best like say in Tennis where is one global pool dictated 100% by skill. You might say "oh but the drivers lose 10lbs per race!" You should see how much a marathoner loses, a tennis player, list goes on. F1 drivers have an army of employees at their disposal and are pretty much treated like kings.

A hard “sport” sure, hardest? Definitely not💀

Nah bro ​@asreb9

@@purpleg3899 Great low IQ argument

You’re a lame for even attempting this

No kidding. Of course they think their sport is the “hardest.” They are delusional rich kids

I would argue synchronized swimming. It's artistic gymnastics + water polo.

I don't recall seeing people in artistic gymnasts getting kicked in the face or almost throwing up from too much sprinting

Exactly. This is the type of bullshit that gives the Olympics a bad name

Go do it. Or are you going to list all the excuses of why you can’t? Or what prevented you from doing something like this? When you were 13, were you getting up at 4:30am, to be in the pool for 5:30, swimming until 7:30. In class for 8:10 and it’s a 20min drive. Classes until 1:30, in the library until 3:00, track practice until 6:00, home for dinner, showered, more homework, equipment work, bed by 10. I did it for years. No funding. I was a kid and I did all my own fundraising, pre internet/social media, for equipment and travel. I was on a big team or even had a club. You have to be good to get in a major team. I wanted to be on team Canada for track. I finally got invited to a training camps “where food was made for me.” I took 2 weeks off school, all my books to teach myself while away and paid $800 to go. I had an awesome teacher who would meet me after school my first week back, so I could get caught up. I skipped prom. My graduation. Parties. Family events. Holidays. I had to say no to a lot of things. I didn’t eat any “fast food” chips, pop, candy, etc. for 10 years. I prepared food and took it with me. I saved up money to go live in Florida, on my own, for 4 months. I was 19. I knew no one, packed up my shit and drove myself to a house I rented that I found in a classified. I trained. on my own. It got lonely. I’ve shared hotel rooms with 6-8 people to save money, drive across country multiple times, 18hrs at a time, to get to meets. There only days off, was when I was too sick to leave bed, or when I spent 8 months in the hospital, had 7 surgeries for an illness, lost my team spot and had to recover from near death, to sitting up on my own to training again. My budgets were so strict, many times eating garlic on crackers for a meal, or a can of black beans, because that was all that was in the fridge and I had no more money in my budget. My hopes was it working out and I would make back so if it, I did. I never lived large, but I paid for school, my car and a place to live. I made it to two games. I medaled. My career was awesome. But if you think this glimpse of prepared meals and daily training sessions with your friends, is what being an athlete is like, you’re sorely mistaken. Thank God my career was before social media. Everyone showing the highlights and best parts, and never the loneliness, the financial destitute, laying on the floor with ice packs taped around joints, hoping you’ll feel good enough for the afternoon workout…. All while reading comments like yours because you saw a ten minute video and trash people efforts, without care or thought, just the entitlement of thinking everything else is so easy, you just got it hard and could’ve done that too, but reasons. As if we all didn’t have reasons too, but still did it. .

I'll be honest, I kind of had that same thought when I heard them talking about it. Sometimes it feels as if people think we (black people) are a different species or something. On the other hand, I know what it's like to be the first / only person of your race to do something. People do ice you out and treat you differently, which means you need an extra layer of drive and resilience to be successful.

While I tend to hate the Diversity is our Strength Mantra. This Team USA Goalie has the talent, wins & medals to back it up. (She’s the real deal) Merit over Diversity.

It definitely is in the top 50 toughest sports!?

You’re using every part of the body at the same exact time. You’re not playing on even ground like most sports. You have to focus on keeping yourself above the water, time management, where everybody is, where the ball is, what type of defensive or offensive formation they are taking, and more. I don’t even watch or play water polo, but even I know that there are little to no sports that can compete with the physical and mental toll that water polo athletes face.

It's swimming, wrestling and handball/soccer all mixed into one. That is a tough combination of physicality, technical skill, game awareness.

@@king_ltc_ no. it's GYMNASTICS.

@@anjoLas I’m sorry. No.

@@king_ltc_ yes, it is

Ping Pong is probably harder tbh

cry abt it

The reporting isn’t about her families socioeconomic status….

Gymnastics is THE thoughest one.

except there is lol and ash is a clear example

yeap, it's gymastics

Lol yes....now just dont take the name of that garbage called mma

@@souravpaul2179 agreed

@@anjoLas They changed the title of the video haha

@@hoosierflatty6435 go figure LOL

*loud buzzer* wronggg

Tour de France has got to be more intense than this.

That's apples to oranges comparison. Just like comparing 100m dash vs 10000m run. Very hard to excel at either one.

@@artemrevelsky The video is claiming water polo is 'the toughest sport in the world'. That is comparing apples to oranges, grapes, bananas, pineapples, mangos and any other fruit you care to name. The claim is obviously unfounded. Let's just agree that any competitive sport is tough and comparisons are meaningless.

​@@gerry343Cycling is our environment.....this is water

Water polo is the toughest sport in the world....they have to be in water....where moving for 40 minutes is definately out of our normal environment

@@souravpaul2179 No it isn't. Boxing, MMA, and wrestling are way tougher than water polo. It isn't even close.