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Originally Posted by yads
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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Russia has an on again off again history of soccer success, Great Britian is abysmal in the winter Olympics generally, France is typically a second tier winter Olympic nation, same goes for Italy.
The US has the perfect combination of mass population, state of the art facilities, and heavy funding. For them to not be the leader would be a shock, especially with the benefits they are now realizing from the Salt Lake legacy. We have two of three in that list (with funding varying from year to year), the population difference is a huge deciding factor.
BTW, all those sports you listed as pursuits in the US are also pursuits in Canada, it doesn't really add to your argument.