The Olympic medal table if the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and Portugal (total population about the same as USA, 25% of China) competed as one country.pic.twitter.com/x8BD9ope6D
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Count the # of athletes. USA - 613 Above together - 425+398+376+372+320+121+116+106+92 = 2326. Kind of a no-brainer they won more medals.
If the USA could send more athletes, by definition they would be sending ones that are worse than they already sent, at best they might scoop a couple more bronzes in the events where they already won gold and silver.
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Yeah, you'd have to dig deeper into the qualification process and the prevalence of national team competitions. If I pressured Andorra hard enough to send me for clay pigeon shooting, I could be an Olympian...and finish last.
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It's dumb to deny the obvious fact that the US obsesses over sports which account for a total of ~4 medals (American football, basketball, baseball/softball). But IMO you're understating the importance of variance here, and the fact that we're talking about 4x the # of athletes.
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track stars are demigods in Europe. Ditto grapplers in eastern Europe, Eurasia... They'll never be in the US. Table tennis, badminton, or modern pentathlon? Zzzz. But why USOC left this guy off the karate team ought to be criminally investigated.
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Its not that the usa, would have sent more participants, Europe would have sent less and some of those that won a medal wouldn't have qualified to be there in the first place.
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USA sent the best gymnast in the world & she had to bow out. Best sprinter sitting home for weed. Shit happens. You have to account for the distribution of talent in the pool, the differences between top US talent that does not make team is minimal. You're ridiculously off base
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Not totally true. Look at baseball, they didnt send any top 200 players
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Does anyone think whoever won 3x3 basketball wouldn't have gotten crushed by 3 random American NBA starters?
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Tell me you know nothing about sports without telling me you know nothing about sports
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