Summary of Mundanity of Excellence
This is a summary of “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers” by Daniel F. Chambliss. In three sentences The author has spent a lot of time reporting on all levels of swimming competition and writes about observations about the differences between them. The differences in abilities of different levels of competition are not because of quantitative differences like “more training” but qualitative differences like using a flip turn instead of just touching the wall and turning around....