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/

  • Pili [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    When you have access to unlimited funds, and the power to take talented children away from their families and dorm them in battle schools, and train them full time with the best coaches in the world, sometimes it's easy to gain dominance in a sport.

    Reddit thinks China is the Jedi order.

    • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      american athletes definitely don't go to sports school where they train full time because they showed talent as a child

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        I’ve known kids who had their parents move them to schools across the country just because their particular sports programs were so good

    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Reminds me of the Parenti speech where he talks about how during coverage of East Germany's victories, the age that athletes started training kept getting younger and younger as they won more medals.

    • HotAtForty [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Citizen your baby is being requisitioned to fill the swimming quota