hmmm China seem to be getting better, and America is doing worse.... those sneaky chinese folk must be up to something

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ec1rvz/whats_up_with_relatively_sudden_chinese_dominance/

  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    There's probably an interesting answer in there if you dig up a timeline of Chinese city construction and cross reference with how developed a city has to be before they start putting in Olympic swimming pools.

    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I wonder if there's any research into a correlation between how expensive it is to train for an event and the likelihood of a third world country winning a medal in said event. This criticism is often leveraged at winter sports but in the Summer games a lot of stuff like Dressage seems to only exist to pad out the stats for first world countries.