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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most privileged answer ever.
Many of these countries don’t have the facilities or coaching for these high level
Athletes to train, not to mention the credentialed associations.

Aside from that, do you know that athletes must pay their own way, or have adequate sponsorship/ a supporting organization to pay their way?

Also, winning on the world stage only matters if you have the opportunity to gain financially from it. Sports aren’t a feasible financial future for most people, unless they are willing to put it all on the line. 
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It was amazing watching South Sudan and the US basketball teams.  On one side you have the best trained players who make $30 million a year, give or take.   On the other side you have players who live in a country in a constant state of civil war causing famine and severe hunger in the majority of citizens.

South Sudan should have won the preliminary game but instead lost by 1 point.  That was so unnerving to the Americans that they couldn’t control racist ignorant comments.

“We almost lost to the ahi ahi tribe”.

They get their shoes from America. We gotta ship them shoes. They only have basketball rims, dawg. Manute Bol, I seen he had to walk... what, an hour and a half to go shoot basketball. We lose it to people who don't even... they got baskets in the back. They shooting on f**king peach baskets in the dirt, no shoes."

American fans also complained that a Sudan born player (Deng) supported the South Sudan team with his huge salary as a Lakers player.   If South Sudan hadn’t come so close to beating the USA team we never would have heard this ugliness.  Maybe it’s time to rethink those $30 million dollar salaries.

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