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What are Your Chances of Becoming a Summer Olympic Athlete?

What are Your Chances of Check out how great (or small!) a chance each type of young athlete has of earning a spot on the United States Olympic team. Along with natural ability and Becoming a Summer Olympic Athlete? determined training, these stats show the chances US high school-aged athletes have of getting to the Summer Olympic Games in hopes of bringing home the gold! And the winner for men is... Equestrian. Of all Olympic athlete hopefuls, young men 1 in 275 1 in 106 who haven't "fallen off the horse" in perfecting their equestrian skills have the GYMNASTICS JUDO 1 in 224 greatest chance of making it to the Summer Olympic Games - almost 682 times the ROWING chance that a serious male basketball player has! 1 in 32,273 1 in 19,552 1 in 307 TENNIS SAILING WRESTLING 1 in 162 1 in 4,285 1 in 1,564 ARCHERY 1 in 1,621 TAEKWONDO DIVING BADMINTON in 7,730 1 in 183 TRIATHLON 1 in 67 EQUESTRIAN SHOOTING 1 in 45,487 BASKETBALL 1 in 22,131 1 in 8,778 TRACK & FIELD 1 in 3,000 TABLE TÉNNIS 1 in 258 SOCCER CANOE/KAYAK 1 in 4,168 VOLLEYBALL 1 in 714 TRAMPOLINE 1 in 1,875 BOXING 1 in 11,081 WEIGHTLIFTING 8 1 in 215 1 in 5,113 SWIMMING CYCLING 1 in 1,597 WATER POLO 1 in 405 1 in 121 FENCING HANDBALL 1 in 214 And the winner for women is... Handball. Young women who devote themselves to 8 1 in 64 1 in 6,435 playing handball competitively have the greatest chance of three-stepping the ball right ARCHERY CYCLING SWIMMING to the Summer Olympic Games - almost 1,181 times the chance that a serious female basketball player has! 1 in 36,415 1 in 155 1 in 257 * TENNIS SHOOTING FENCING 1 in 6,761 TRIATHLÓN 1 in 2,191 GYMNASTICS 1 in 137 1 in 275 JUDO 1 in 45,487 BASKETBALL y 1 in 1,431 WATER POLO 1 in 40 Z ROWING HANDBALL 1 in 5,238 TRAMPOLINE 1 in 540 TAEKWONDO 1 in 1,838 WRESTLÍNG 1 in 161 1 in 20,086 SAILING 1 in 6,042 BADMINTON A 1 in 3,677 1 in 1,000 SOCCER DIVING BOXING 1 in 198 1 in 758 EQUESTRIAN CANOE/KAYAK 1 in 2,059 WEIGHTLIFTING 1 in 34,111 VOLLEYBALL 1 in 333 TABLE TENNIS 1 in 9,079 TRACK & FIELD 1 in 3,875 1 in 56 SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING FIELD HOCKEY SOURCE DATA: The greatest challenge is.. earning a spot playing basketball in the Olympics. Both men and women who hone their performance on the court have the least chance of making it to the Summer Olympics. For either gender, only 1 in 45,000 of those who play basketball will play in the Summer Olympic Games! 2008 Bejing Summer Olympic Games Participant Data 2012 London Summer Clympic Games Partiopant Data 2000-11 High School Athietics Participation Survey Results - National Federation of State High School Asseciations (NHFS) Partioipation data http./articles latimes.com/2011/up/29hewsla-heb-boxing-youth-children-pediatrics-20110829 http./www2teamsa.or/USA-Boxing/2012-Oympic-Teamasp http//www.usacycling.org/borp/demographics.php http./www.ushandoal.org/nde phooptienucom_contentstaskusectionsid-29temid-379http./www.bfinder.com/Rowing-Statistics http/tacing ussalingorgunior_Otympics.htm http/ssets.usoc.org/assets/doouments/attached leiename/9211ounior Olympics National Championships BID MANJAL pdt http.//waw.teamusa org/USA-Table-Tennis/USATTaspx https:/usagym.or/POFVAbout%20USA200ymnastic/Statistics/Membershioinfo odf http//www.usatriathion.org/about-multisport/-/media/70A400E92SFB48582083E0SF7AIDFES ashx IN CONCLUSION: College Finder www.ecollegefinder.org STA R T STA R T 1 |2 | 3 | 4 |5|6|7 |8 | 9 |10|1 |12|13|14 FINI S H FINIS H

What are Your Chances of Becoming a Summer Olympic Athlete?

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Check out how great (or small!) a chance each type of young athlete has of earning a spot on the United States Olympic team. Along with natural ability and determined training, these stats show the ch...

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