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post 1688101223 08-10-2023, 06:14 AM
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Because they focus on their own sports, since their population is so huge.

I'm not the biggest fan of most yank sports, but if they decided to focus on most other sports, with their population and resources you have to be an idiot to think they couldn't at least compete. The only exception is football, they probably could compete but it would take a longer time, since the entire system is embedded in European culture for over a century with feeder clubs etc.
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Originally Posted By samsbolton⏩
iceland has way more titles and its deserted
no they don't

America has 12 wins and 31 podiums
Iceland has 9 wins and 21 podiums
post 1688102643 08-10-2023, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted By mchabs⏩
most people in the US are obese and lazy
You have a point here.
Originally Posted By ErnieMccracken⏩
The US has 2,959 olympics medals. The next closest country, the Soviet Union with 1,204, stopped existing 30+ years ago. That's how far behind everyone else is.
The good old days.
Originally Posted By TappingTheZen⏩
Because they focus on their own sports, since their population is so huge.

I'm not the biggest fan of most yank sports, but if they decided to focus on most other sports, with their population and resources you have to be an idiot to think they couldn't at least compete. The only exception is football, they probably could compete but it would take a longer time, since the entire system is embedded in European culture for over a century with feeder clubs etc.
And a lack of real interest is probably the winner.

During the Cold War the Olympics were sort of a proxy competition between world powers. Who isn't aware of the program run to select and train athletes in China and the USSR?

Now in the US many children have 0 exposure to sport and fitness.

- many public schools only have PE one day a week and some don't have any PE at all

https://www.capnpetespowerpe.com/sin...werful-reasons


- lack of interest and lack of funds seems to have reduced participation in low cost recreational youth sports

- with both parents [or the only parent] working in most families there is a lack of adult time to get kids engaged in sports

- most children aren't as exposed to sports as a career worth chasing [single mom households, too many other entertainment options competing with sports]

Sports and athletics seems to be something only for upper tier children in good school districts with parents who encourage sports and can dedicate the time and money for their children to practice and compete.

If we had a government supported program to scout for natural talent and begin training and conditioning early on the taxpayers' dime then we would probably make a better showing than most countries simply due to the diversity here which should mean we have a good assortment of physiological types.
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post 1688102653 08-10-2023, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted By 129iq⏩
Why do you have an inferiority complex with America? No one is going to Britain message boards and asking this
The irony is the UK is an irrelevant chithole in every sense of the world. Conquered the world for spices just to eat food like german planes are still flying overhead. Now they are completely irrelevant
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post 1688102723 08-10-2023, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted By 8PointBuck⏩
we dominate everything including the olympics

stay mad and inferior brit cuck
USA gets absolutely cucked at football/ soccer. Pretty much the only sport where every nation puts in some effort to compete.


Serbs can absolutely mog the NBA if investments were put into their federation. The junior talent there is insane.
Racing = cucked
Tennis = cucked
Volleyball = cucked
Hockey = cucked

The only mainstream sports where the USA absolutely dominates are baseball and american football which are not played by anybody outside of the USA
post 1688103123 08-10-2023, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted By 129iq⏩
Bragging about something u had nothing to do with is low IQ. Ur skin color, country, etc
This. Also addother people’s accomplishments
post 1688103733 08-10-2023, 07:25 AM
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pretty sure at least Agassi and Sampras have been number 1, no?
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post 1688103813 08-10-2023, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted By NextPound⏩
Of the top 10 global universities, 8 are on US soil. Let that sink in. Oxford barely made it into the top 5 at number 5 with an edge of 0.2 over another American university. LOL at brits thinking they are smarter.
Maybe in some US random ranking, but in the QS world university rankings 2023, Oxford is number 2 and Cambridge is 4th.. lol. So 2/5 of the top 5 are British, not bad for a country with a population of 60 mil. In the 2024 rankings oxford & cambridge are 2nd and 3rd, and half the top 10 are on European soil (4 of them in the UK), half on US soil.

https://www.topuniversities.com/univ...-rankings/2023
https://www.topuniversities.com/univ...-rankings/2024

Not trying to claim Americans are dumber or anything, simply correcting misinformation.

Seems a petty comment tbh anyway. People are individuals. Many brits are fkin stupid, many yanks are fkin stupid. The opposite is also true.

I dunno why Sam makes these threads tbh, attention i guess.
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Olympic teams can only he so large. Because of America's population, we'll always look poor "per capita " while completely dominating the medal count.


Lmao @ this fantastical cope by this mutt brit cuck.
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post 1688104653 08-10-2023, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted By TokenV⏩
pretty sure at least Agassi and Sampras have been number 1, no?
McEnroe was number one for about 5 billion weeks.
post 1688104963 08-10-2023, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted By jimbob007⏩
McEnroe was number one for about 5 billion weeks.
Andy Roddick has a stint as #1 as well
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post 1688106413 08-10-2023, 08:19 AM
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Why don't people post new stats?
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Why'd you have to pick a stat that doesn't matter to prove a point? Look at total medals and let's do this the right way this time

Ohhh, nvm, this is why:

Olympic Medals by Country 2023


# Country Total Olympic Medals Summer Olympic Medals Winter Olympic...
1 United States of America 2,985 2,655 330
2 Germany 1,083 797 286
3 United Kingdom 965 931 34
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post 1688107013 08-10-2023, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted By HayZues
Olympic teams can only he so large. Because of America's population, we'll always look poor "per capita " while completely dominating the medal count.


Lmao @ this fantastical cope by this mutt brit cuck.
I dont think you have any idea how 'per capita' works you lying cretin
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post 1688107143 08-10-2023, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted By jimbob007⏩
McEnroe was number one for about 5 billion weeks.
I measure by major titles

Luke Donald was world number one, didnt win a single major
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Lmao at the per capita cope. It’s almost as bad as when they try the total medal count, but lump all of the EU together.

Cricket isn’t played here. At all. Rugby is like a tier 4 sport here below the big sports. Soccer is starting to catch on but really all of the top talent goes NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL since that’s where the money is.

Basketball is a world sport btw. Just because un athletic Ukcels like you can’t hang on the court doesn’t mean the more alpha euro nations don’t have great teams. Spain is a powerhouse every tournament, Slovenia has Luka Magic so they’re a semi threat, and every top team has one or two NBA players with many having all stars.
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Originally Posted By Cleveland33⏩
no they don't

America has 12 wins and 31 podiums
Iceland has 9 wins and 21 podiums
cant count the first six since the contest wasnt held outside america

so america six, iceland nine
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America worships sports where athleticism is the driving factor. Football and basketball.

Don’t care about dork sports like golf. Barely even qualifies as a sport. On par with bowling
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Originally Posted By samsbolton⏩
I measure by major titles

Luke Donald was world number one, didnt win a single major
In Mac's case he won pretty much everything.
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Originally Posted By samsbolton⏩


nowhere in olympic medals per capita

not a single world cup in a global sport (rugby, cricket, football)

no tennis player in the top 3 ever and have to go on an archealogical dig to unearth one in the top 10

golf..most of the world doesnt play so pretty meaningless, although the biennial european ass whooping is approaching

Gridiron? played nowhere
Ice hockey? only by poor eastern euros who eat turnips
basketball? hardly any professional leagues anywhere
baseball? only played by midget japs and south americans who failed at soccer

snooker, darts.. pretty much no one, ever

and dont come at me with womens sport, because that doesnt count
Because there’s no $$$ in most of the sports you listed except golf… which America is top 3 in anyways.

We exceed in sports with a lot of $$$,
Nfl
Nba
Mlb


If you took those same athletes from ^ above sports and had them try in other Olympic sports or even MMA we would be the top in every sport… but no one pursued it cause there’s no $$$…

America breeds the top athletes in the world.
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Unless you are from Europe, some of those sports are not sports, lol.
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Man OP really rustled some jimmies of yankeecels itt.
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Originally Posted By samsbolton⏩
why? youve got more people but theyre mostly fat couch potatoes
thats fair but the ones who arent whip everyone elses ass in everything
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Originally Posted By ~Hades~⏩
thats fair but the ones who arent whip everyone elses ass in everything
Can't remember the last time I watched a sport where they were successful. Whether it's football, tennis, f1 or anything else popular. I guess they're doing somewhat decent in MMA because the biggest org is American so they focus a lot on recruiting Americans.
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Originally Posted By Barteh⏩
Can't remember the last time I watched a sport where they were successful. Whether it's football, tennis, f1 or anything else popular. I guess they're doing somewhat decent in MMA because the biggest org is American so they focus a lot on recruiting Americans.
ever hear of the olympics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-ti...es_medal_table

since op brought it up
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Originally Posted By ~Hades~⏩
ever hear of the olympics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-ti...es_medal_table

since op brought it up
Fair point, but part of that is that it's the sheer size, combined with being an advanced nation. It seems silly to compare medals with a country that has 7x the population or more. When you compare per capita to a nation with a similar level of advancement, you get a different picture.

For a more fair comparison, add up Europes medals and compare it to USA, the top European countries combined probably have a similar population.

UK doing pretty fkin impressively for their size, quite frankly lol.

If you add up:
GB
France
Germany
Italy
East Germany
netherlands

(i.e western europe, although some places are missed, but wanted to try to make a population comparable to USA, so this is by no means all of Europe)
You get a total population of about 293 million (so ~40 mil less than USA), and a medal count of 3671 vs USA's 2629.

and a gold medal count of 1173 vs USA's 1061

Americans always brag about how huge they are, and how European countries are like states to them and laugh at them, until it comes to counting medals vs much smaller countries lol.
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No offense intended obviously but this chap seems to portray the personality of someone who is the butt of jokes around his golf clubhouse I mean you know the type where he walks by and everyone gives an awkward head nod and as soon as he is just beyond hearing range the group of normal men laugh and call home a horrendous tosser again just an observation
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