mai said:
Population, nor wealth, nor any other excuses people mentioned here have nothing to do to sports achievements. Infrastructure, social programs, sports popularity do. Mind I remind you that small GDR team managed to score 47 golds once, since reunification it's all the way down for Germany despite it got bigger and wealthier, while a lot of sports pros lost their jobs. Say, for the most part Chinese success in swimming belong to ex-GDR coaches. Though even in terms population growth Germany ain't in perfect shape, birth rate is atrociously low, lower than France, US, Russia, China etc. |
Pretty sure you meant Australian coaches, some of them even train here in Australia, Sun Yang worked with Grant Hackett's coach I think.
Maybe they did in the early 90s seeing how their women's team were caught for mass doping, but right now, I don't think anyone is dump enough to touch anything GDR given their poor reputation.
