The easiest Olympic sport to win a medal in.

In this video we will try to answer a question that I think everyone has asked before: What would be the easiest Olympic sport to win a medal in as an everyday man. So follow me as I not only try to answer this question but also try to qualify to this events as well.

[@spookyshark632]

Eliminating sports because of cost was a mistake. It's easier to go into debt than to actually get good at a sport.

[@poazze5142]

hows removing cost a mistake im confused can u expand

[@cjspyker]

@@poazze5142 take out a loan to do rich people sports

[@Gmackematix]

I'm just disappointed that he didn't get hold of a horse and try dressage.

[@prodbysen]

the thing is you still need to get good at the sport the only difference is it will cost you hella money to participate

[@poazze5142]

@@cjspyker hows that a mistake taking it out tho?

[@driftwood42]

I think the actual answer is shooting but not for any of the reasons you mentioned. Compared to the other sports, you can start shooting much later in life. You don't need ridiculous VO2 max like cycling, you don't need to start when you are super young like most other sports and the actual equipment isn't too expensive, it looks like you can get a starter air rifle for a couple hundred dollars. Most of these sports have their competitors start at like age 5 and age out by their mid 20s. There are competitors in the shooting events in their 50s. Very few other sports are like that. I don't think shooting is easy at all but I think its the most accessible and therefore has the greatest chance of someone picking it up after watching the games and being able to compete at a high level.

[@Mohit-zt3jk]

I agree with you

[@NaThingSerious]

I agree, if you aren’t given a time limit, let’s say you’re 20 now, if you decide you’ll dedicate your life to trying to get an Olympic medal, then you have like 30 years to train your hardest. However, if the aim is to get a medal now, or as soon as possible, then I’d go with football or American football or hockey or some other team event with a decently large team. Just sit on the bench the whole game and maybe sub in for like 5 minutes at the end and just get on the team of a country with a good chance of winning.

[@aleksandertokarzewski7978]

And maybe sailing

[@bluecamel738]

Equestrian is another one of those sports that you can compete in for a long time (Nick Skelton won gold at 58 if I remember correctly) but it’s so prohibitively expensive to get to an elite level that it almost completely negates that fact

[@AgentNoob7672]

Agreed

[@CertainlyCeramic]

The easiest way to get a medal: 1. Find the most corrupt federation of a team sport. the team should have a realistic chance of medalling in the Olympics. 2. Steal a lot of money, and use the money to bribe the federation to let you on the team as an alternate (trains with the team but not officially on the roster) 3. before the last semi final/medal deciding game, one player on the team fakes an injury during training and pulls out, so you (the alternate) replaces them. This assumes that both the injured player and the alternate both get medals. 4. Ride the bench until you get a medal. I put a lot of thought into this so you're welcome.

[@ferretyluv]

So be Chinese or Russian, got it.

[@littledovechan]

Just be american or european !

[@muhmonsta]

@@littledovechan Just be american, european, asian or african!

[@leojackeray1927]

@@muhmonsta so everyone? Prob just chinese

[@sleshflex4170]

they made it all more simple......be a man, bring a passport that says otherwise and you are good to go.

[@kyto5001]

i think the better way to look at this is probably what sports have the least competition to qualify for, and depend the least on genetics.

[@mimixis]

Exactly

[@x0q4]

That’s what I thought this video was gonna be

[@edgeribble]

but also a lot of those sports are expensive so the average person can't do it

[@unluckygamer692]

​@@edgeribbleeasier to take out a loan then to develop skills that may take years to get to a decent level

[@edgeribble]

@@unluckygamer692 Sports like that require regular expenses and taking out consistent loans is never a good idea because of interest. Also just because they are expensive doesn’t mean they are easy to

[@reinrassigerStuhl]

The answer is 'any team sport where you can be benched'. Just imagine you being on the US men's basketball national team never playing, you'd win gold easily.

[@gezzapk]

The best would be an event where everyone somehow got disqualified and you automatically won the Gold

[@pinklemonade8283]

Yeah but you gotta get on the bench first

[@karuscuvic]

man leave jayson tatum alone already 😂

[@Starkweather133]

So your answer is be one of the top 12 American basketball players? Easy peasy!

[@Buphido]

So about that

[@scollyb]

The answer is actual rowing Cox. In 1900 the Dutch team replaced their cox, who they thought was too heavy with a French boy from the crowd. They won gold. The boy is the only unknown person to win gold in the modern Olympics

[@MiamiMarkYT]

All this goes out the door if you’re -extremely small -have a very strong voice -can learn in repeat basic instructions -and have the right connections Because congratulations, you’d make a perfect coxswain! The guy on the rowing team who doesn’t row, and just yells at everybody else instead.

[@scollyb]

Or just small and in the right place at the right time. In 1900 a Dutch crew won gold with a boy from the crowd as cox

[@Ovenman940]

I mean, if you have the right connections, you can be a king

[@khauman6811]

bros' stuck on 9 subscriber with 1 million subscriber level quality videos

[@jcplays3842]

It’s a great vid but the quality is in the 100k subs level

[@YuriTTF]

Truuuue

[@khauman6811]

@@jcplays3842 theres a grey area between being entertaining and being million subscriber level. Usually those factors just come down to consistency and consistently hitting the algorithm without straining too hard on a niche

[@tk21them]

Bro is going to buy better equipment and programs in pc if he reach 100k so it won't be a problem .He does interesting videos thought

[@morniclegreen3534]

Bro why is this comment so funny

[@RNLehmann89]

Cycling should have been one of the first sports you checked off. Its one of the hardest, most brutal and painful sports in the world. The average pro cyclist will average 400 watts of power over a roughly 40 minute time trial event. I dare any of you to see how long you can hold 400 watts. The average fit person could probably muster 300 watts for maybe 40 seconds realistically.

[@TheFiku]

i can do 285w for like 15min but at like 90-100rpm cadence. idk how the pros are so good even at low cadence of less than 70. can only tip my hat how insane it is

[@yaoiboi72]

I mean the same could be said about the long distance running one. Try that olympic pace. Actually a similar argument could be made about the other olympic sports too.

[@gusbus1973]

It’s still probably up there for realistic to at least qualify for as a lot of countries don’t send anyone and as long as you pay money for travelling and racing, you can probably join some random African team.

[@gusbus1973]

@@TheFikuthey don’t rly ride at that high of cadence and a higher cadence dosent equal more power. I can do 400 watts for around 5 mins but my cadence dosent matter as long as it isn’t rly low or rly high

[@RNLehmann89]

@gusbus1973 True, but he was trying to figure out how much better the olympic athletes actually are. By that reasoning, it doesn't really matter which sport you do. You just join some random countries team.

[@iRunfastXC]

I think grouping athletics all together is a massive disservice, as height obviously has its advantages for high jump and polevault, but the best distance runners in history are all 5’ 6”

[@Aneurin_Hunt]

I mean it's silly to group them as one sport anyway. High jump, 10000m, javelin ,100m ,hurdles are all very different. There's running, jumps, and throws.

[@iRunfastXC]

@@Aneurin_Hunt Agreed.

[@jickhertz4124]

He divides them later in the vid..

[@Hadeopelago]

Yeah but athletics should actually be divided up in some way

[@felixlara2945]

It's determined at birth if you can compete in those

[@Talk3rs]

I would argue that going for the "mass" sports (=cheap, easy access, highschool practiced) is a mistake. For example running - you have 18milion people attending in US, so getting into elite 20000 is probably insanely hard. But if you go for fencing, you already are in TOP20000, because that is the number of people who practice it.

[@sew505]

The answer is some kind of horse riding event. You have to be rich to do it. The talent pool is tiny. it obviously requires skill etc but the least amount of skill or physical ability for any olympic sport.

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

Jockeys have always been among the smallest athletes in the world, because it is a VERY strong advantage not to be a heavy weight on the horses back. Maybe the stats are counting negative correlation as a “strong” correlation too?

[@Chiller11]

Exactly. The horse is the athlete. Given a brilliant horse an average human can be taught to ride it.

[@ZelephsDog]

I feel like it’s boxing lowkey

[@crimsonflare8422]

@@ZelephsDogur insaneeee

[@ZelephsDog]

@@crimsonflare8422 nah I would cook in boxing

[@ADBraimah93]

To be honest --- you would likely have a better chance in the winter olympics curling event.

[@usethebrick]

Wdym? It's like archery + sweeping

[@guilhermesavian5445]

that shit is athletic as fuck. It's Boccia on steroids.

[@Lissbirds]

@@guilhermesavian5445 Have you seen the physique and age of some of the curlers, though? Some are just average middle-aged people with an average body type, some are even a bit overweight. Compared to someone like a runner or gymnast, it's closer to the normal person. I'm not saying it doesn't require skill, but it's not like cycling, swimming, etc.

[@guilhermesavian5445]

@@Lissbirds I second that you’re right

[@TheLoughDuck55]

Breaking, the answer is breaking. The whole world just watched an unathletic, middle aged professor, with about average break dancing ability compete in the Olympics. There’s hope for us all.

[@cronutism]

Hey we are talking about winning a medal here, and not being an international ignominy 😅. The best breakers have incredible amounts physical strength, creativity and adaptability (unfortunately)

[@Inculturapedia]

No joke, with all the data you manage you should try the Excel championships. Thank you for the video!

[@pietersmith9474]

An average man can barely run for 5k (I'm not sure he can). Most people live sedentary lifestyles and can't run continuously for a long time. That's the reason for the thing known as couch-to-5k, most average men cannot run for 30 minutes continuously without training. For people who train to run a 5k, under 30 minutes is a respectable first goal and about 23 minutes or so is average. Edit: I said "run" a 5k. 45 min is not running continuously for me, at least. Anything over 37-38 min, and I am walking at least a little bit. Moreover, I stated without training. That means WITHOUT a PE program, which, over the course of some period of time, trains participants to complete 5k. Secondly, OP specified men, probably because he is a man. You can do a similar analysis for women if you want. Also, Olympians are usually in their 20s or early 30s, not 60 or older. We should probably limit age to 20s and 30s, when the average man is fittest and stands the best chance of going to the Olympics. In short, we are talking about men (in their prime), not persons. You can't take the average time to complete a 5k as the time an average man who makes a good faith effort to complete a 5k would be capable of, because most people do it for fun, not as a race, and plenty walk it. Go to runninglevel for 5k times for an intermediate man, and you'll find it's just under 23 minutes. The average man, therefore, WITH TRAINING, and ACTUALLY TRYING TO RUN AS FAST AS HE CAN, can probably run a 5k in around 23 min, allowing roughly +30 sec.

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

Nevertheless I think most of us could walk a marathon within a day.

[@helios2664]

Indeed, top middle - long distance runners are basically sprinting the whole distance.

[@livwake]

As a 5k runner I can say 23 mins is well above average for a regular person

[@corazondepapel9346]

​@@livwake23 is above average and it becomes exponentially harder the closer you get to sub 20 mins too

[@pietersmith9474]

@livwake I also ran xc in high school and run 5ks every now and then. The question was what an average man can run for a 5k. "Man", because the guy who made the video is a man (note - it wasn't average person, it was average male). It should also be limited to men in their prime, since Olympians are usually in their primes or close to it. My answer was that he couldn't. For men who run seriously which means an average man who trains and makes a good faith attempt to do as well as he can, the runninglevel site gives an intermediate time as 22:31. You can't just look at the average times of recreational runners, because many aren't really racing and many treat it as a walk (which is all fine). The corresponding time for women in their prime is 26:07. The marathon handbook website has similar numbers and gives explanations for them (it calls this a "good" time but refers to it as intermediate in the table). Direct your questions there.

[@lenvm]

“You can be dead and be pretty good at the luge” -Greg Giraldo

[@piangfuann]

As a competitive archer, trust me it is not easy. It may look easy because it’s point and shoot but there are so much more technique. Additionally, the likelihood of you out win Korean is super slim lol. Also archery equipment isn’t cheap, a good set up is about 1500 GBPs, times 2, plus the coaching and just practice.

[@WagesOfDestruction]

A good shot in archery on a good day, with a lot of luck might fluke it in.

[@denisl2760]

@@WagesOfDestruction Yeah, its not like anyone will ever accidently run as fast or jump as high or lift as heavy as an olympic athlete. But you could accidently hit the bullseye even with 0 skill and your eyes closed.

[@giorgiociaravolol1998]

No sport is easy. But archery is the least physically demanding alongside shooting.

[@Lillith.]

As someone who used to fence until quite recently with people who fence internationally and a trainer who is a former European champion and the owner of the school used to be the coach for our national team, the equipment cost is correct. I can't talk about other countries, but in fees it's actually one of the cheapest sports I've done. €29/month for lessons and €65/year to the fencing union. For a private lesson you'd pay €23⁵⁰/45 minutes. It's not easy to win a medal in the slightest, it's very competitive and not very luck based, but the cost is something that was joked about on occasion. Fencing has the perception of being an elite sport, but it's really not.

[@CA-vx4sn]

Can you do another video like this for the winter Olympics? I knew you might not be able to re-enact some of the events but it'll be cool to see the breakdown and analysis you did.

[@maaxxi]

As a badminton enthusiast, if you're not from asia/europe its probably the easiest sport to get you into the olympics (not winning a medal). But still need pretty big amount of money to compete in international tournament

[@LiamJM10]

I'd argue the easiest to win a medal for an average joe would be a team sport that you're for some reason selected for. A team sport where the team/roster size is larger than the maximum number of people needed on the pitch/field/court. It's likely that one of the backup goalkeepers in football will win a medal with 0 minutes played, and potentially other players too. Theoretically this can apply to Basketball and Hockey as well.

[@filiaaut]

Can you get a medal with zero minute played, though ? I watched some of the fencing team events, and there was one case where the backup was sent there in one of the last rounds of the last competitions of the day because otherwise, they wouldn't get a medal.

[@Akabeche]

Yeah you have to play to get a medal​, so the backup goalie without a second of play would be left out. Teams often make rotations, for instance on the last group stage match@@filiaaut

[@LiamJM10]

@@Akabeche not sure that is true. Just checked the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Brenno and Lucao both have been credited with medals despite no minutes.

[@Akabeche]

@@LiamJM10 I believe you (and I'm certainly not checking all the match reports of the 2020 olympics to see if these two guys got any playtime, or if they actually got a medal lol) but I find it strange because that goes against the IOC Protocol Guide (Part 3.2.4, page 54) which states, I quote with ephasis mine: "2.4 For team sports, and for team events in other sports, each member of the winning team HAVING TAKEN PART IN AT LEAST ONE MATCH or competition during the Olympic Games is entitled to a silver gilt medal and a diploma, each member of the second team to a silver medal and a diploma, and each member of the third team to a bronze medal and a diploma. The OTHER MEMBERS OF THESE TEAMS are entitled only to a diploma. The members of a team placed fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth shall receive a diploma."

[@kyto5001]

the 5k thing was wrong, 13:25 was us olympic trials automatic qual, 13:05 was olympic standard this year

[@donavanmattson7229]

was just gonna comment that haha

[@maxmccann5323]

I don't think people realise how fast that is for a 5k, even 18 minutes is well above average for most people and cutting that down further even by a minute or two is serious business

[@jurekgadzinowski2895]

​@@maxmccann5323True. 99% of the population could train from their young age and never get near 18 minutes at 5km. And we are talking about times several minutes quicker.

[@davidconsumerofmath]

@@jurekgadzinowski2895 nah, 18 minutes isn't THAT fast. I'd say a good chunk of people (not majority? But a large percentage) if a healthy young male and devote their whole life to it can go sub 18 minutes

[@IncreaseMatter]

@@davidconsumerofmathagreed 18 minutes is not that fast at all. Now had he said 15 minutes, then that’s a different conversation

[@nehams23]

This is damn underated thought this guy has like 500k subs but ONLY 10! impossible

[@matthewdicarlo6794]

He doesnt have 3628800 subscribers

[@davidf76363]

​@@matthewdicarlo6794 glad to see someone is as autistic as me

[@cjsimmons6535]

​@matthewdicarlo6794 I clicked to see more replies, expecting to see this exact reply, and was not disappointed

[@JoDiep]

There is just one good answer: the easiest way to win a medal in the Olympics is the rowing eight event. In this event, you have the so-called coxswain. His or her job is to steer the boat and give some coaching. I cannot imagine it being a really skillful or physically demanding role; you only need to be light.

[@darkftw4559]

nope,you need physicality and also technique+coordination

[@imanolproaso3141]

​@@darkftw4559not really

[@LittletbigT]

The fact they whoever they chose is chosen because they are known to be good at the sport says that not just any old person could do it, but yes it is sort of possible

[@TheTJAmos]

Obesity entered the chat

[@MNBKWORK]

Being light is a physical demand

[@qumit165]

realistically, it is Women's BMX freestyle. The skill gap between the womens and mens BMX freestyle is easilly 10 years. If one starts training rigorously now, they may make the 2028 womens bmx freestyle

[@NyanyiC]

How about the small issue of sex?!

[@mimixis]

@@NyanyiCSeX Is A SoCiaL ConStrUCt

[@AlliIsNotaGirlkisser]

But doing that as a man would be morally disgusting.

[@Thatguy-md5ve]

@@mimixis Nah bro genders the social construct, so sex is still an issue.

[@mimixis]

@@Thatguy-md5ve when it’s written like that, it entails sarcasm, fyi. It’s social media code

[@Scrubermensch]

The "wtf is a kilometer" clip is so funny lmao. Greetings from Brazil

[@Swagedupppp]

YA lmao😭

[@Apanblod]

Wtf is a Brazil!?

[@Scrubermensch]

@@Apanblod is a place where people double jump, make them great at not-american-football

[@Apanblod]

@@Scrubermensch I see. I hope to jump like the people of Brazil one day!

[@rBAZOOKAPOLAKKE]

7:1 🇩🇪

[@PattyFowl]

Do it again, but for the special Olympics

[@markovanstein]

I always had a similar question, like, which sport could you train for a whole year, and then manage to qualify and compete for the podium. Your video tackled some of these.

[@RomeDrori]

Your lifting/running on the "average" is extremely optimistic maybe average for someone who works out on the regular but considering the average person doesnt I can't see that

[@mrbyron969]

Yeah, there's no way the 'average' person can bench their own bodyweight

[@markhdhu1320]

@@mrbyron969 Yep thats what i was saying too. A gym beginner (like a month) usually benches like 50kg/100lbs I would say

[@Kessra]

IMO any gun shooting activities like air-gun or clay pigeon shooting belong to the sport types where average people will have the highest rate of success probably. The only problem here is that you literally compete with a lot of other "athlets" as you can perform that sport from teenage years till retirement easily.

[@Dr.Randy.Butternubs]

9:34 South Korea has won gold in archery since the sports addition to the Olympics, I would've removed it in this section.

[@YoniBaruch-y3m]

One of several sports with very strong ethnic correlation

[@livwake]

@@YoniBaruch-y3mit’s not genetics though it’s culture

[@TheHolladiewaldfeee]

Tbh the biggest chances are in the least popular sports which normaly means lesser competition. Maybe like kanu or some other Sport which is so unlopular I cant even think about it now.

[@filipsepesi5944]

By kanu you mean kayaking/canoeing? Becasue while it might not look that hard you need insane stability to not overturn. And the slalom part, just insane.

[@worstgamer1162]

Naaah canoeing is still hard bro

[@TheHolladiewaldfeee]

@@worstgamer1162 im not saying canoeing isnt hard. Litetally every olympic Sport is hard to get on an olympic level as average Joe. That wasnt the question. The question was which is the least hard. And im pretty sure is has to be an unpopular sport.

[@GoGoGoRunRunRun]

Maybe they are so unpopular, because they are so incredibly hard? 😅

[@worstgamer1162]

@@TheHolladiewaldfeee oohhh ok my fault I read yo comment without thinking

[@frankschmidt546]

Olympic winter Bob. Be the second guy who just run and jump into the Bob and do nothing more

[@dashdartfun]

Winter biathlon is probably the best sport because you just need to be heavy, decent at skiing, and good at shooting. This describes a good amount of americans in the northwest.

[@norgnt]

I know this is a joke, but still cross country skiers are some of the best trained endurance athletes in the world, and they have to actually hit a target on top of that. Considering the fact that most people (outside of Northern Europe) can’t even keep their balance on a pair of skis, and the average joe probably can’t shoot that well when tired I’d say it’s not even close to being the best. I guess the only case you could make is that the talent pool is not as big as many other sports.

[@dashdartfun]

@@norgnt Yeah, its pretty hard cuz hitting targets while on skis probably sucks. The reason it would be the best sport(atleast for americans) is because of easier access to firearms which makes them one of the largest skillpools for half of the scoring. Combine that with good skiing out west and you can find some people who are good. Also this video assumes that you can run a 4 hour marathon which your average joe cannot even finish. To win you would probably need to be within the top 10% of both sports respectively. The amount of competition is very small because loads of people hate crosscountry skiing, and many countries don't have easy access to guns. Really good marksmen in the US are usually in the south and don't ski. Really good skiers are usually up north where there is a less heavy gun culture. This means if you train hard you could probably win.

[@choccymilkconnoisseur2775]

Absolutely not lol. Biathlon is incredibly hard

[@dashdartfun]

@@choccymilkconnoisseur2775 This is not actual advice. I am fully aware of the huge task it is to crosscountry ski. Shooting while doing it is probably really hard, because every shot pushes you weridly, and your balance is all werid.

[@trickygoose2]

You don't shoot at the same time as you ski. You stop at a range to shoot. I think the main difficulty is that you need a low heart rate to shoot well while the skiing makes your heart beat high. Competitors tend to slow their skiing speed a little just before the range to start decreasing their heart rate.

[@Thron2111]

„the average human is 107cm“ I’m a giant among men with my 183cm, should probably start playing basketball.

[@tabryis]

5'11 manlet

[@zachpinkston4233]

Lmao average basketball player is 6’7

[@marcobelli6856]

@@tabryis183 cm is literally 6

[@Thron2111]

⁠@@marcobelli6856if 5‘7 is 107cm how could 183cm be only 6 inch. 0:28

[@tandemdwarf745]

I know, I did a double take over that blooper too lol

[@_random_guy]

how does bron not have like half a mill subscriber, the video quality is top notch, waiting for more content from this channel

[@maxowy9039]

yeah lebron should have more subs !

[@pierremaggi8661]

Liked for your absolutely flawless pronunciation of "bois de Vincenne"

[@Buphido]

I was eyeing gymnastics on that list like "no way that’s gonna make it to the final selection purely based on body type, right?" xD Glad it got crossed out reeeaaal quick when skill vs luck got mentioned, saw some of the gymnastics performances today and these people feel like a fundamentally different species from us, one with 360 degree vision, rubber limbs and future sight.

[@ridwanurrahman1967]

No idea why people didnt subscribe after this masterpiece. But you'll get there soon brother.

[@soccom8341576]

Rifle shooter here. Your target is too big, 3-5 times too big?

[@_ReaI_]

I think everyone takes shooting as a sport for granted, or they look at the sport like its a joke lmao. My dad was an olympic shooter and he sacrificed so much time, effort, blood sweat and tears to get a silver medal. It maybe looks easy from spectators point of view, but shooting is actually quite difficult

[@maddoxmalloy_08]

@@_ReaI_Was he the Turkish guy who walked up with his hand in his pocket? 😂

[@helloworld7158]

​@@_ReaI_ it's not easy of course but I mean it's the best one to try maybe i have some god's skills in shooting that I didn't know about (JK), the idea is I can start shooting at any age and maybe after years of hard work i can win some medals it's possible, but the other sports people retire before they even get started.

[@mohorbiswas191]

That's so cool man! Mad respect! What's his name?​@@_ReaI_

[@Evan-i4e]

@@_ReaI_ Nope the us military is the largest employer in the world, you have to pass marksmen test for every government role, so if you specialize in marksmanship and train and take all the offered free courses you can easily become sharpshooter, from there you can go to do the all the coemptions in Ohio and transfer to 22 air. A lot of the us was rural without roads just a few years ago a lot of people relied on doing that to eat, that's not mentioning guys like jtf2 and sas, the fact of the matter is there's more random us citizens who can win gold in shooting then the entire world combined, that's why Japan and Germany never had plans on invading America and Russia and China don't. It's just silly for a real sharpshooter to go to compete for a random corporation overseas for $400 medal and 35k prize from the us government that will be taxed likely 60% where most live while being forced to become a public figure on tv using air guns before there banned to and switching to lasers, it seems to be some hipster gun tube thing for people to act like air guns are cooler and more challenging than a m4.

[@giorgiociaravolol1998]

There are some short answers: -Cycling (some Olympic champions started as late as 27 as a hobby and went on to win in a timespan of just 4 years!) -Shooting -Archery -Rowing (there's little skill to it, you just have to outmuscle+cardio the other dudes. A regular gym bro obsessed with rows as cardio can do it) -Boxing (this one is a hot take. There are folks like Muhammad Qawi that went on super late to get a great career, but being punched in the face is not for everyone) -Horse riding (very expensive) -Beach volley -Badminton -Golf -Table Tennis Edit: WINTER TIME -Curling -Bob (if some dudes in Jamaica went to the Olympics, so can you)

[@l.d.t.6327]

*women's* cycling.

[@the_taron971]

You got your height measurement conversions wrong

[@chadi0902]

The video I didn't know I needed to see. Quality video. Nicely done.

[@etienneblacki6046]

Nice analysis bro, I think looking at how the competition day is scheduled is a way better scale to successfully estimate a medal possibility. Example in Paris Olympics there is a french taekwondo guy who won bronze medal winning is last 2 fights and loosing 3rd one. Eliminator sports are only a day of competition mostly in combat sports, it can be your day is some high variance sports

[@ewnt]

Great video , keep on going with such a informative videos. There are many people who can bi in range of 20% variance of world records/ best routines but it is actually still far away of being the best. Shout out to all athletes, doesn't matter how good you are just keep on going and see you at finish line.

[@syrup-man6704]

No way height is more of an advantage in the triathlon than in basketball. That graph is misleading and you must've done something wrong there. Triathlete medalists are shorter than most basketball players.

[@bamboo213]

I think the graph is more of how narrow of a hight range are the best at a sport in, rather than a taller equals better at the sport chart. Could be completely wrong though idk

[@tyraels1555]

Just say you don’t understand what correlation means instead of having being loud and wrong.

[@bluecamel738]

I think it doesn’t take into account the absolute height but rather the relative height of each athletes. So even if triathletes are shorter than basketball players, there’s a greater advantage to being tall (compared to other triathletes)

[@bluecamel738]

I think it doesn’t take into account the absolute height but rather the relative height of each athlete. So even if triathletes are shorter than basketball players, there’s a greater advantage to being tall (compared to other triathletes) in triathlon than there is in basketball

[@Mullaa-uj4kg]

Random Turkish dad: Hold my beer

[@bullis24]

A more interesting topic would be. Is there a sport where the average man can hope to beat at least one athlete?

[@apotoxine6062]

as a kayakist, i think kayak cross would be an easy go, if you take appart costs of training and equipement (personal boat around 1200 $ / paddle 200 to 600 /rest of equipement maximum 600 $ and some big costs of travelling to train in river/ fake river (not english speaker but i mean the artificial river where you compete)). Back at paddling, kayak cross is one of the newest kayak discipline, there are a very few hardcore kayak cross athletes (almost all of them are slalom athletes as far as i know), their rolling techniques are kindof weak (an average freestyle kayakist could be way more efficient on this part of the ride), And the main problem athletes faces on this discipline is the lack of training in real occasions, you rarely face the ramp and rarely are in the case of side to side paddling with ennemy, I hope i have been understandable

[@Sammy-qt9it]

Richer countries win more medals due to inverstment and they also (on average) have taller people so I think taking the US average height is fine

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

That’s bs. It has something to do with genes. Europeans are among the tallest in the world (counting white Americans as Europeans) Dutch people are even the tallest in the world.

[@CarlosSilva-cx6oh]

All those Nordic European countries and Netherlands are all some of the best countries in Olympic history. Norway is the best (excluding Liechtenstein) with about 12 times the amount of medals as the U.S. per capita. Btw the next best? Finland, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland. The Dutch 14th overall

[@avganimeenjoyer1118]

this made the budding data scientist in me happy. i mightve got a project idea too! Thnx

[@synapses9973]

Shooting (particularly shotgun) is also insanely expensive, especially after the recent woes of inflation. I can no longer afford time nor money to shoot trap, skeet, nor sporting clays. I’m not even talking about the Olympic variations of trap and skeet, which, depending on where you live, can be twice as expensive for ammunition and practice rounds. It sucks, especially since I was quite good at it.

[@S1su]

Beautiful, just… Absolutely Beautiful video 👏

[@deucalion4451]

I like the use of stats, making the video educational and fun.

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

I feel like of all of them, shooting sports would be the ones I'd be most naturally able to get into. Since my dad was all about his guns, I have been able to get a good handful of experiences with shooting them (including for skeet shooting, which I was actually pretty decent at). Even know that if you're at the range and you want to steady your aim right as you're pulling the trigger, you wanna be pulling as you do an extended exhale so the rhythm of breathing doesn't jerk your aim around ever so slightly. Sure, I would obviously need to go to the ranges much more frequently if I truly wanted to compete at a higher level, but I feel like if I put my time towards that specifically I may have an actual shot, pun intended. I think it'd be a lot of fun to delve more into skeet shooting personally, that was all kinds of fun with the boy scouts. Starting age shouldn't be too much of a problem either, since some olympians have won medals well into their 60s before.

[@joaomatheus6222]

0:07 BRAZIL MENTIONED

[@_ii5733]

Bro saying that shi like the brazil isn't mentioned in every football video or isn't famous about other things

[@joaomatheus6222]

@@_ii5733 but the title of the video is "the easiest olympic sport to win a medal in", It doesn't give away any specific sport, so I was surprised to see Brazil mentioned in the first 10 seconds

[@TheDerperado]

AYRTON SENNA WINS!!!!!

[@ragegaze3482]

The google earth cycling part was so funny lmao

[@JK8]

The answer is always whatever big team sport will take you on. Basketball, rugby sevens, volleyball… any sport where you don’t have to do anything to medal. That aside, probably some technical one like skeet

[@Goombasareawesome]

Real answer is 3rd choice goalkeeper for the best team. 3 over age players are allowed so age isn't a factor either.

[@markhdhu1320]

Those average weight lifting stats were more like averages for ppl going to the gym.

[@eduardoortiz6552]

I highly recommend Break Dancing, after all Australia proves that anyone can do it!

[@l.d.t.6327]

Australia got zero points.

[@Wallyworld30]

In high school I could squat 3x my body weight. I weighed 145lbs and was squatting 450lbs. Funny thing is I could only bench 120lbs. I had very scrawny upper body but my leg muscles were massive from playing basketball 24/7. I could leg press 850lbs but honestly I could of pushed more but I didn't want to risk tearing up my knee's for basketball. I rarely went to the gym to work out just would go with my buddy sometimes to see how much I could lift. In hindsight I wish I spent a lot more time in the Gym working out because if I trained with weights not only would my vertical be even better but upper body strength is much more important than I realized when battling for a layup or dunk and even more important on defense and rebounding.

[@kulbabus]

Rowing coxswain is literally a free medal. Just weigh

[@enestel]

Would love to see the luck analysis done on fencing. Particularly Epee. I believe it is a high luck event and would be my sport of choice to try to qualify to the Olympics.

[@Mr2t2b]

Nice video which answers the question why in Olympia there are Gods.

[@lukilsn]

12:55 "pace of 7 kilometers per minute"💀

[@EricMason-lx5jo]

real quality vid man, you deserve to make it big

[@solarwindzz]

Thank God for the YT algorithm, cause this channel needs more subs!

[@dislexyc]

Football/Handball as a substitute keeper

[@dislexyc]

Also, there's up to 3 exceptions for the age limit for men's football tournament, and not every team filled those slots

[@imhereforthepopcorn]

wow this is very interesting ! could u do the same trials and stats for women? it would be very interesting!

[@ZacMann-real]

from like minute 4 i swear he started getting into sports betting odds calculations

[@christian3654]

Keep up the work! This was a great video

[@Dani_minecraft_official]

This video actually describes me 5.7 everything on point

[@bmand33]

I THOUGHT THIS VIDEO HAD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VIEWS MAN YOU WILL BE BIG KEEP IT UP! Greetings from Peru 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪 :))

[@MamaBrook]

We don’t usually qualify for handball but we will next time. Also not much competition and can sit on the bench.

[@fingerprints2983]

Rowing. Men's and Woman's Eight - there is a small person sitting and motivating the team

[@RicoBlank]

Just stumbled across this vid, and it’s honestly one of the most interesting/informative vids I’ve seen in a while. I can def appreciate the amount of research that went into this! Keep grinding bro, with videos like these ur channel is gon blow up fr 🫡

[@hitvanyEjtoernyosElvisImitator]

I would choose archery I think :D maybe javelin throw.

[@paparadeliko]

Freestyle wrestling is probably one of the hardest, but average people probably think they could have a chance in stopping a takedown from an olympian

[@brunomcleod]

1:04 “It’s body weight”

[@nehams23]

Remember me when you get famous

[@cube_2593]

If we Count in Winter olympics, the third Seat in a bobsled is the easiest Place to get in the olympics because it requires the least skill and the other Seats do the Heavy Lifting

[@Better_MMA]

All the sports you took out for price could have been an answer. Team sports with high numbers of players makes sense to be the answer, I don't understand how you could eliminate them. Any individual athletic/combat sport should have been eliminated immediately

[@officialedwardtate]

The weightlifting categories for males are 61,73,89,102 and 102+

[@aro4457]

180cm is 5.9ft not 5.9 inches btw 180cm is closer to 5’11 or 5 ft and 11 inches

[@bullmobileyt8759]

Bench 100kg Squat 115kg Deadlift 160kg

[@aleski6506]

You forgot your weight buddy

[@HungVu-ls5or]

No way being shorter is an advantage in Badminton

[@Macciejable]

I would look for a fairly new sport. As a climber myself, I'd say you could try speed climbing. While for average Joe, climbing the standard speed wall is to hard to do, even without any time limit(and WR are around 5s / 6s for men/women), you compete in a fairly new sport, with World Records being still not that insane. Speed climbers make less than 1% population of all climbers, and the sport is way less complex than lead, or bouldering. You repeat the same movements, instead of training for countless possible combination of holds. To add to this, there are no facilities to train speed climbing in most places of the world. Poland just won gold and bronze in olympics, meanwhile gold medalist had to move to different city to have a full standard wall to train on. Even in Warsaw(capital), with many climbing gyms, there is not a single place where you have full certified speed standard. So if your only goal is to win a medal in any olyumpic event at any cost(stupid goal if you ask me), move to a place where there is full speed climbing standard and give it all you got. That being said, it's still obviously insanely difficult to win an olympic medal.

[@Johan-og4ru]

There are so many players in soccer on the bench that don't play a minute in whole tournament, lets say you're on the bench of the best team of the tournament and the starting player that plays your position does not get injured and they win the tournament chances are very high that you get a gold medal with 0 effort

[@TheTobeyGaming]

Okay, but how many people play soccer? No way you get on the team. For male olympic soccer you even have to be 23 years or younger

[@Lachlan_McDougall]

I reckon it’s water polo, majorly team based, not saturated, need to be fit but not excessively

[@gargeluy3035]

Terrible take lmao the average person can’t even tread water for a minute or so straight. u think doing that while tussling with a defender,keeping ur eye on teammates and the ball, and having to constantly swim from one end to the other of a pool too deep to stand in is the easy answer?? 😂

[@Lachlan_McDougall]

@@gargeluy3035 there is no easy answer that’s the point of the video, in reality it’s about finding a sport that isn’t overly saturated and doesn’t need specific genetics. - water polo. Obviously it would require years of practise and training but not decades like some other sports or to be born with lucky genetics

[@l.d.t.6327]

Most would literally not survive a water polo game.

[@Bork23476]

Assuming the luck of a sport is basically the variance of different teams or people winning is short sighted. A potential reason a sport/person may have high variance in who wins could be that the sport has a very high skill ceiling that is not easy to achieve regularly. Hockey is a great example of this so is gymnastics. Both are some of the highest skill ceiling sports I can think of and not everyone can be at their absolute best every single competition. Both have very minimal randomness, it's just hard af to preform at the top of that game consistently because it's skill ceiling is so high.

[@disc0duck]

I wanna know which event i could just sneak into the olympics on medal or no

[@drezhb]

maybe esports?

[@arpitkumar4525]

Watch Eddie the Eagle movie

[@Vacool]

​@@drezhb Being an eSports player is as hard as athlete, yes the trainings are going to be easier physically, but competition is much bigger

[@tsuki4261]

@@Vacoolcompetition is also much bigger in the Olympics, not everyone gets to qualify out of millions. Especially for big countries like Great Britain and USA. Small countries are known to be more forgiving (I’ve read a story about a guy applying to be a swimmer despite not knowing how to swim, he somehow made the Olympics.) but yes, esports is much taken seriously so the interests will be higher and that means so is the competition… what I’m trying to say, I agree. I don’t think there’s any sport/game people can learn/have the talent without time and dedication and I’m talking years…. And us commoners are less likely to do that lol

[@toyanaydin8248]

@@disc0duck someone commented in this comments section a method that you could follow. It requires finding a team sport whose board you can bribe (if they are corrupt enough + with a lot of money) and you have to ride their bench.

[@alfieseddon7910]

I'd argue it's the pole vault for the simple reason that absolutely nobody ever attempts it in the first place. The real problem is acquiring the equipment. But assuming you can it has to be the least practiced sport in the world, or very close to it.

[@jorge9142011]

Well if i was average 5'5-5'6 (im 5'4) and my legs isnt mess up. Basically had my prime body back. Teakwondo. I would probably reach sliver or at least most likely bronze . I was really gifted in that sport. Started when i was 5 years old. Until 14 or 15. Had my master at 12 yr. Fully doing demos n teaching grown ass ppl, in advance classes. It was nuts. Man. What a timee.. miss it

[@Oscarwsh]

I think that marksmanship would be the easiest since it’s all about you and if you just put in a couple hrs a day, maybe even 1 hr only per day for like a year maybe 6 months even, you would be able to get good enough to qualify. Once you find a good shooting position and strategy, it’s should get easy to improve.

[@morniclegreen3534]

Bro great video, very valid reasoning except the answer is power walking, the answer is always power walking!

[@NyanyiC]

Its harder than it looks!

[@hilaryhongkong]

You forgot about the Winter Olympics. There a number of people successfully got their way in without much experience or training

[@michaelbauer8778]

Getting in != winning a medal. Living in SA getting a quote Africa place, does not make you a medal contender

[@guilhermesavian5445]

It is Men's Grass Hockey. Niche sport, few countries compete, can be carried to medal.

[@funnykiasedona1077]

Although judo requires a lot of skill, I think it’s the easiest to get a medal in it, But it highly depends on your weight. Because judo is categorized by weight, you can simply have a highly bizarre weight and hope less than four people have that weight.

[@richardmetzler7909]

That is a very dangerous choice. Unless you train enough to pick up some serious skills and happen to be really athletic as well, you are going to get violently smashed into the ground within 20 seconds by any serious competitor. And Olympic brackets with only four competitors? Not how this works.

[@isk8atparks]

the fact its 1v1 contact sport already makes it a non option. Theres no "easy" way to win that

[@l.d.t.6327]

Judo is brutal.