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Thread: Why is USA so much better than everyone else at Sports?

post 1456962033 08-10-2016, 10:55 AM
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We put more emphasis on athletics in our culture.


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post 1456962193 08-10-2016, 10:56 AM
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Population + money

Some of your high school football teams have millions and millions of dollars invested into them, whereas high school teams in the UK practically have no funding whatsoever unless you go to some rich private school and even then it doesn't compare
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Originally Posted By liftasaurus⏩
if you're using the per capita argument then Australia cucks the US everytime.
If you want to use the per capita argument then some tiny island nation with 60,000 people that won one or two medals cucks the entire world.

ETA:

Lol at all these mad foreigners desperately clinging to the 'per capita' argument. Why assume a linear grown in medal count with population? All sorts of logical fallacies in that one.
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post 1456964453 08-10-2016, 11:11 AM
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Well don't most people in China work 12 hour days? We got dat free time.
post 1456964463 08-10-2016, 11:11 AM
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Genetics, we're just stronger, faster, tougher than Eurocucks, and Indian brahs
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Originally Posted By TheJediBrah⏩
Seriously what's the deal. China has more people and more money. Other countries have just as many resources right?

Yet USA always dominates the medal tally
China doesn't have more money at all. China's GDP is much lower than Canada's if you factor in population size. Their economy really isn't that great and the majority of Chinese people live in rural poverty.

The answer is "money."
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Gets pretty old always being #1 at everything we do. Feel sorry for the rest of the world and i'd be pissed and envy us as well.
post 1456966773 08-10-2016, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted By MetalLover⏩
But per capita UK decimated them! No need to be mad about it because you got cucked by your dad.
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Originally Posted By econbrah11⏩
lol at thinking USA is so dominant. Look at this :http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...medal-counter/

Notable countries with more medals per millions of pop : UK, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Belgium, Italy, Denmark

Notable countrie with more medals per 100B$ GDP : New-Zealand, Greece, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Canada

USA are good because 1. They are the third most populated country and 2. They are the first world economy. But when you take these factor into account, not so dominant.
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Originally Posted By CommonPheasant⏩
If you want to use the per capita argument then some tiny island nation with 60,000 people that won one or two medals cucks the entire world.

ETA:

Lol at all these mad foreigners desperately clinging to the 'per capita' argument. Why assume a linear grown in medal count with population? All sorts of logical fallacies in that one.
If you have 400 million people to choose from or 4 million people to choose from where are you more likely to find the most elite athletes (or the most anything for that matter,good or bad)?

Opie specifically asked why in his thread title, people have just answered. That doesn't mean you can't be excited to see your teams win at things, just that there is a reasonable explanation and per capita is an interesting thing to keep an eye on as well since it provides a more balanced view.
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Beating NZ was a far sweeter victory than against USA
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post 1456977023 08-10-2016, 12:20 PM
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The argument people are forgetting is that the best American athletes already play professionally in other sports that get paid way more money.

Imagine if all the NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB players competed in track, volleyball, shotput, rugby, rowing etc.

USA would crush even harder. I'm not even American, but they are basically sending their "B" and "C" teams to the Olympics. The Americans competing in those events are the men and women who couldn't make the top professional sports.
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Not better, they just have more people. Medals per capita almost every european country decimates the US

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Originally Posted By Fiz-iks⏩
The argument people are forgetting is that the best American athletes already play professionally in other sports that get paid way more money.

Imagine if all the NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB players competed in track, volleyball, shotput, rugby, rowing etc.

USA would crush even harder. I'm not even American, but they are basically sending their "B" and "C" teams to the Olympics. The Americans competing in those events are the men and women who couldn't make the top professional sports.
I heard we are ok at Hockey?
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post 1456981803 08-10-2016, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted By QuickyBastar⏩
Not better, they just have more people. Medals per capita almost every european country decimates the US

Dat dere nordic aryan master genetics strikes again
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post 1456982073 08-10-2016, 12:53 PM
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hahahahahahaa we even have more in winter!!!!! 1776 bitches
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Originally Posted By Tinge52⏩
I heard we are ok at Hockey?
That has literally nothing to do with my post. There's what, 200+ Americans in the NHL? Those guys would all be in contention for other Olympic events if they didn't play hockey professionally.
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Originally Posted By Fiz-iks⏩
That has literally nothing to do with my post. There's what, 200+ Americans in the NHL? Those guys would all be in contention for other Olympic events if they didn't play hockey professionally.
Professional athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympics. Just throwing that out there.
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Originally Posted By Broflex81⏩
Professional athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympics. Just throwing that out there.
Basketball/hockey etc count for one medal. They bring the top 20 players for one medal and the hundreds of other professional players just train at their houses. I'm saying if they didn't have those sports they'd be competing in other events.

It's not that hard to understand.
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Originally Posted By QuickyBastar⏩


Not better, they just have more people. Medals per capita almost every european country decimates the US

Dat dere nordic aryan master genetics strikes again
lol @ people posting this dumb **** about population.

hey look guys bahamas #5 with 11 total medals lolololol. Clearly they are vastly superior to the USA.

Reminds me of people that weigh 140lbsthat only talk about how they can lift x times body weight trying to make their lifts sound more impressive.
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Originally Posted By Broflex81⏩
Professional athletes are allowed to compete in the Olympics. Just throwing that out there.
Doesn't mean it's good for their respective sports or that many will automatically go to the Olympics (they could have personal or contractual obligations preventing them).

Also, some professional athletes still lose to armatures. I guess the 3 pro-boxers (from Camaroon, Italy, and Thailand) who were in this year's Olympics all lost. But I also heard many pro-boxers don't want to compete in the Olympics for various reasons.http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ighters-othersI imagine in some other sports there may be reasons why they wouldn't want to compete similar to this.
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Originally Posted By FFailed⏩
lol @ people posting this dumb **** about population.

hey look guys bahamas #5 with 11 total medals lolololol. Clearly they are vastly superior to the USA.

Reminds me of people that weigh 140lbsthat only talk about how they can lift x times body weight trying to make their lifts sound more impressive.
Bermuda is clearly the GOAT
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If Europe was one combined country with a comparable population to the US they'd have far more medals.

US' olympic winnings honestly isn't very impressive at all when you take into consideration that they have the largest population of all western 1st world countries by far
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Originally Posted By Fiz-iks⏩
That has literally nothing to do with my post. There's what, 200+ Americans in the NHL? Those guys would all be in contention for other Olympic events if they didn't play hockey professionally.
you saying just cuz they in the NHL or NFL they can outrun Bolt, or dive better than them Chinese folk?? c'mooon man if they could they would since there is NOTHING holding them back from doing so if they desired
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Originally Posted By Kaminax⏩
If Europe was one combined country with a comparable population to the US they'd have far more medals. US' olympic winnings honestly isn't very impressive at all when you take into consideration that they have the largest population of all western 1st world countries by far
If the USA, Canada, Brazil, and Australia was one combined country.....

LMAO even the Soviet Union when it was in tact was made up of many countries and USA still has more.
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lol - when it comes to gun death/violence other countries are always like WTF USA!?!?

We're like, 2nd amendment, 318,000,000 people and more guns than people.

But we don't have it happen here!

Now it's the Olympics and we're like, ha! We're soo good!

Other countries are like, b-b-b-but you have MORE PEOPLE!!!


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Large population, strong athletics/sports culture, lots of money = lots of medals. Most other countries only tick one or two of those boxes
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Originally Posted By Tinge52⏩
you saying just cuz they in the NHL or NFL they can outrun Bolt, or dive better than them Chinese folk?? c'mooon man if they could they would since there is NOTHING holding them back from doing so if they desired
Bolt is in a couple of events and of course he'd still dominate them. Overall, our best athletes are in the NFL and don't compete or care about the Olympics for the most part.

They have plenty keeping them from competing however, it's called contractual obligations and the fact that they just want to get paid and DGAF about competing against amateurs. Hell, look at handball in the Olympics. If we took a bunch of 3rd stringer NFL and NBA players and taught them the rules and let them play together, they'd easily dominate that sport without a doubt. But what would be their motivation to even do that? Nobody cares about f'kin handball here. lol
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Originally Posted By Nelly87⏩
lol - when it comes to gun death/violence other countries are always like WTF USA!?!?

We're like, 2nd amendment, 318,000,000 people and more guns than people.

But we don't have it happen here!

Now it's the Olympics and we're like, ha! We're soo good!

Other countries are like, b-b-b-but you have MORE PEOPLE!!!


great times.

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It's a tournament, winning is what matters. You don't get points for having a small population and winning 1 medal or else, like I said, Bermuda would be the GOAT. lol
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