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Old 02-26-2010, 03:49 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by valo403 View Post
Why doesn't football eat up all the male athletes in the US? Maybe because there are 10 times more of them?

And soccer does eat up a lot of athletes elsewhere. You'll notice that the only nation that's really strong in both soccer and winter Olympic events is Germany, who just happen to have a strong tradition in winter sports and grab a ton of medals from a select few sports that they dominante.
Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy all have had lots of success in the olympics and other sports (soccer/hockey.) Not even mentioning the US with multiple sports pursuits (football/basketball/baseball/hockey)
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