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Originally Posted by Table 5
Speaking of traditional sports, I'm always mystified with how crappy we are in downhill skiing considering we have the Rockies and it being a pretty popular winter sport in this country. I don't expect us to be competing with Austria...but you'd think we'd have better results.
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We have maybe 5 million who have mountain access at a young enough age to pull from and then Hockey and Soccer and other team sports weed them out. So our best atheles go into other sports and unlike the endurance sports where if you are genetically suitable a later start isn't that detrimental the skiing sports you need to start earlier.