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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you did research, you would find that many countries give their athletes who win gold a lot more than the US does. I read that the US comes in 9th in that regard. OP, I strongly encourage you to research things  before making generalizations. The US has 300 million people. So the odds are we will have more winners.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much dis-information here. If you fools had to live on the budgets of most US athletes, you would starve to death. Don't mistake a few stars for the majority of the pack.

And, don't forget the winter Olympics. The US never has the most medals in that.[/quote]

Pp here. I didn't mean that the athletes have money. But they do have access to facilities and coaches etc. and those gymnastics classes for little girls are expensive. Someone has to drive to those classes and go to meets etc. it's not that athletes are living like kings. They are working very hard yes, but with far better equipment and support than other countries for the most part. [/quote][/quote]

So you're assertion is that it's just due to numbers?  China has a larger population, fewer medals.  I am just asking the question about the source of the US success, PP.[/quote]

Does China have more young people who are their athletic peak, though? I'd have to look it up, but due to the one-child policy China had in place from 1980-2015, they may not have as many teens & 20/30-somethings as we do & may have a lot less females in that age group than we do.  [/quote]

China should be beating the US by now. They pull kids out at an early age if they show promise, and ship them off to athletic training camps, while compensating their parents well also. The Chinese government focused on which olympic sports were "easiest" to get a gold in (hint: not swimming) like little competition or not well-noticed, and they targeted those sports to dominate.

Meanwhile in the US, Olympics is NOT supported by the US taxpayer at all. It's all private money. Sure, they'll get a meet 'n greet at the White House after they win, but the US gov't is largely hands-off when it comes to olympians.[/quote]

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