• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    USA 🇺🇸 population: approximately 333 MILLION

    CHINA 🇨🇳 population: approximately 1.425 BILLION

    China has over 4 times the raw talent pool to draw from

    • jackmarxist [any]
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      1 month ago

      Poorer people also have more opportunities in China to get into sports with state support from childhood

      • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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        1 month ago

        So the "cost" is having a society where the poor are given opportunities? Well fuck that then

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      The U.S. has 34 times the raw talent pool as Cuba but only 12 times as many medals. So Cuba is 3 times as good at sports as USA.

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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      1 month ago

      True, unless you think chinese people are racially inferior, like NYT does