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Why is USA so dominant in sports. Like in the Olympics, those are not even USAs main sports but they still dominate. Most medals by far with china in second but that’s only because of pure population. I guess USAs genetics r just that much better

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USA has great athletes but in individual sports like Tennis, Football, Cricket etc... They suck.

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no one in the US plays cricket bud

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gutszeraa

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the USA dominates boxing lmfao wdym they suck in individual sports
also since when is football an individual sport?

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Shownu

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Fury owns Wilder buddy. Came to US and whopped him.

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gutszeraa

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congrats. heavyweight div is literally the only div where the UK is slightly relevant and they still only have produced 2 decent hw fighters in the entire history of boxing LMFAO

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Pacquiao owns them all

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Elcatsu

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soccer is not even that popular in the us but look at women's team

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They have some special steroids for their atheletes

also you have know that they control the steroids observation committee ;)

fucked up world

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gutszeraa

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thats only the NFL and thats because handball is a fraud sport

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Typical_NA_Fan

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USA does not have one dominant sport like most other countries (soccer), so the US diversifies where the top athletes play and end up with strong athletes in many categories. Additionally, there is a lot of money behind sports and sport success, which allows athletes to be full-time in their niche sports for many sports that can only be hobbies in most other nations.

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TwitterTronacy6

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But look at like pure athleticism sports like track. Why does EU suck

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turkey

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a lot of great track programs here in the US idk if there are in other countries

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Typical_NA_Fan

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Yeah, in the USA, every school (starting at around age 12) has a track team and students are encouraged to play multiple sports and try out for multiple track events.

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gutszeraa

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depends what your definition of domination is, id say historically (maybe less so now) that USA was ABSOLUTELY dominant in boxing, the next best country Mexico being SUPER far behind in raw talent output

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We also have like 350 million people and all the climates/biomes so athletes can train for any sport within the US.

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so many great american athletes in the recent years: michael phelps, lebron james, simone biles, serena williams, puliGOAT...

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Elcatsu

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US medals > whole eu

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kristof

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pretty sure EU have more medals😹😹
nt bro

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hellohello139

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more wars too

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Elcatsu

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eu history just bunch of wars lul

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USA usually have great players in every sports and in the sports they don't, they export them from other countries lol. Like in chess, their team is one of the strongest in the world however it has only one guy born in America iirc. And thats hikaru who's japanese origin?

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ya mean import?

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wizardbot

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Mb sleepy asf, its 6 am here and i had to wake up for classes

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"imports" as if they aren't american/canadian because they aren't white. you're racist.

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hellohello139

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you didn't get his point

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wizardbot

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Lmfao wtf. Im not even going to reply to the racist part, but let me give you a example. Levon aronian top 10 itw just a while back shifted to the US from Armenia, he was lured there by Rex Siquenfield (owner of a big chess club) because of good opportunities, just like many other good players. Fabiano caruana probably 2nd/3rd in the world used to play for Italy, Leiner Dominguez (from cuba) moved to US when he was 35 yrs old. Wesley So used to play for Phillipines. So out of the 6 top 20 itw players of US chess team, only 2 came from US junior circuit (Hikaru and Fabi) and Fabi developed his chess in Italy not US. These things are very well known and accepted by everyone in chess community. Dont make stupid accusations if you dont know what the other person is talking about

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Eu has scream
not valid

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Elcatsu

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loud sacy > scream

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because USA is a big and wealthy country

a lot of money is invested in good education, infrastructure, and other developmental resources for young athletes

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kristof

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America: 4301 Olympic medals
Europe: 12432 Olympic medals

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Elcatsu

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Whole continent comparing to us lmao they should make whole eu a 1 country it should be called united europe and make putin the president so his wishes comes true

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kristof

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its actually south america and north america combined😹😹

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damn u owned him

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Elcatsu

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nice cap u got

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EU = East Usa

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Revlo

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NA has more medals per capita in olympics that actually matter. EU is inferior like always. like who even plays curling.

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kristof

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do the math

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number1_anuj_fan

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"NA Superior" 🤡
NA education moment.

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They have great resources, facilities and support from the government imo. Our government doesnt do shit but on the rare occasions that one of ours take a medal the government takes the credit for the win.

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India left the chat

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sweetdreams11

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BTW Japan is also pretty good

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number1_anuj_fan

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Nobody cares tho
The two most popular sports in the world are football and cricket.
And Americans suck in both.

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bruc

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baseball

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number1_anuj_fan

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Not even top 5.

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bruc

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yea mb found out that japan and other country is better

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hellohello139

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who plays baseball in 2022

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Yeah out of like the top 5 most popular sports, America is only really good at basketball

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KssS

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cricket? i can only see a hand-full of countries who are serious about cricket.

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KssS

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lmao why are you downvoting me? every time i hear something going on about cricket i only see South Asia, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Where are the other countries??

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number1_anuj_fan

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Cricket has more than 2.5 billion followers.
That may be just because of india and pakistan's population but that doesn't mean cricket isnt the second most popular sport by number of fans.
What game is Phillipines good in tho ? 🗿

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Elcatsu

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Trying to fit cricket as the popular sports lmao couldn't be more indian

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number1_anuj_fan

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Cricket has more than 2.5 billion followers.
That may be just because of india and pakistan's population but that doesn't mean cricket isnt the second most popular sport by number of fans.

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KyLZi

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having a large population helps.

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sweetdreams11

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Not really

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KyLZi

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No it does. That mixed with infrastructure helps.

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number1_anuj_fan

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Cope

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The US high-school/collegiate sports system is pretty big and well-funded, which helps create the notion that sports is a very viable and achievable career compared to other countries, and I believe it was Eisenhower (and JFK who built upon it) who also rolled out a fitness policy for American citizens, urging them to be more fit and healthy.

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KssS

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its not about genetics its because the US spends more on its athletes. Top talent from across the world migrate to the US because they can earn more than what their home country provides

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Elcatsu

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wesley so moment, dogwater government

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Klause

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Us invests more in sports.. Simple

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jeet24

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They just import atheletes cause they have 💰💰💰.

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Student athlete scholarships in literal universities, nuff said.

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TwitterTronacy6

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Bad?

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USA has one of best training programs and scholarships for the high school/college athletes. Athletes can thrive in that environment and prodigies can be easily scoped out.
I don't think anyone except Black people have better genetics than the rest of us.