So you are a foreigner? It all makes sense now.
So you are a foreigner? It all makes sense now.
I give Spain about a 25-30 percent chance of winning. USA is not dominant even if they should take the gold.
lol china with four times the population for half the medals.
Soccer sucks, but there are many countries who are doing much better at Olympics pound for pound
There's also not a country that is combined to be as big and as rich as the US and the cherry on top being we care about sports more than, say, the billion people mostly living in overcrowded conditions and playing cricket in India. That and we have everyone of every race and every athletic size. Why is this surprising? Outside China and India, the US has like 8% of the world's population and a greater share of the wealth.
Why is this surprising? We always dominate the Olympics.
Last edited by Caltex2; 08-18-2016 at 03:10 AM.
What school does/did Usain Bolt go to? I'll wait.
If anything, the US has zero control over the IOC. The IOC is anti-American and short of them coming to their senses and alloting the games to places that can actually host them, the US won't be hosting either Olympics for the foreseeable future.
So? That's an argumet against US dominance. Just combine the medal count from Britain, Germany and France (3/4 of the dominant countries in Europe) and they beat the US count by a mile.
True, but they would exceed population.
Im just saying based on population and GDP you can determine how many medals a country "should" produce. It doesnt mean American athletes are inherently superior.
However, if the US cared about soccer, we would probably dominate soccer as well. If you took the best athletes from a country of 300 million and a GDP 17 trillion its going to beat anyone else in the world nine times out of ten.
But they're all different countries with different cultures. You'd be better off saying combine Australia, New Zealand and anything English speaking in the South Pacific.
US population: >324.000.000
Germany/France/GB: <210.000.000. That's roughly two thirds of the US population. (I got the numbers from wikipedia, they should be fairly accurate).
GDP the US is more than the one third ahead of F/GB/G that they have more in population, I give you that. I only did a quick google search and it provided me with 2013 data, which had the US at >16 billion and F/GB/G at a combined >9billion.
I doubt you'd dominate at football, but I don't want to get in, or start another football debate.
Who do you mean? I bet Germans, Frenchies and Brits have more in common than Texans and Alaskans (if that's what you call them).
I'm a foreigner for telling it like it is?
exactly...
We suck at soccer but only because we don't care ....
There are always exceptions, tbh.
BALCO Academy.
Not really, bro.
US athletes in Rio: 554
GB/German/French athletes in Rio: 1186
Favorites don't always win medals, either.
Former baseball player and proud American Ashton Eaton is once again the best athlete in the world
That guy is truly incredible and deserves more attention. America cares about the Deca about as much as they care about Rugby. Sad.
I meant the population of Europe, not those two specific countries.
And I dont see how you can argue against math. Again, its not bragging. Its simply the number of athletes from which to draw from.
The US has more all-time olympic medals than Great Britain, Germany and France combined:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-ti...es_medal_table
Then Ryan Lochte shows Americans are uniquely dumb. Great job America, if he were black he'd be jailed already
Lochte is a dip . Always has been. Let Brazil throw the book at his swaggy ass for all I care.
But overall, we've been stellar guests, showing sportsmanship at every opportunity.
Meanwhile, the French guy was off pouting because he got boo'ed (Brazilian fans were in the wrong for boo'ing, but the French guy kind of acted like a baby).
If UB was a steroid user, so was pretty much everyone else, especially someone like his wannabe (look to the side and see if he won) Chris Gatlin. He's fast regardless of anything he may have done illegally. You can't eat or rub on height and size (which means he has more leg muscles and fewer steps to take than the typical runner).
We need a new private ass ed compe ion in the Olympics so Tammy s can finally go for the Gold
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