I have a theory that the best athletes to have ever played most sports have never played them at all.
What I mean is that most people never try most sports, either because of cultural boundaries (the sport doesn’t exist in their country) or social reasons (it costs a lot of money or luck of birth to train in bobsledding or figure skating.)
Some sports are tried by most people, such as football, baseball, basketball and sprinting. This makes these sports more interesting to a larger number of people and more competitive.
Archery and synchronized swimming are interesting arts, but I hardly think of them as sports in which the best players in the world are competing.
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