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Originally Posted by Muta
So then why does it seem like the rest of the world is trying to field the best competitors they can, and are actually winning medals in the process? Maybe we know something the rest of the world doesn't. 
If we can't even field a winning team in 'BS sports', how the hell are we supposed to be taken seriously right from the get-go? Surely these sports would be the ones most easy to train for, and win at. |
Quite frankly we don't need to overpower the world in the Olympics to consider our country a great place. China, the US, and in the past Communist countries need to win these medals for propaganda purposes. This is why the Chinese have 11 year old gymnists that they fudge documents in order to prove they're 16 (The minimum age to compete in womens gymnastics), why the US in the past has taken steps to ensure their athletes are clean for testing days but don't care about doping the rest of the year, and why Communist bloc countries injected many female weightlifters and other female competitors with enough testostrone to levels exceeding most men.
The whole thing is a joke and my sense of nationalism is actually enriched when my country isn't the one partaking in excessive garbage to win the most medals. We have much greater priorities with our tax dollars and corporations their donations than Olympic athletes.