USA has the best athletes in the world?

[marcus1979]

FilaBrasileiro said:

jankazimierz said:
The 2nd post shows that austrailia is the most athletic country per capita. Really, you can have one or two guys from some obscure country be the best at a sport and that would make that country have the best athletes in that sport in the world.

Actually I disagree with that, and my arguement is simple, in the olympics you cannot have 3 finalists from the same country in a lot of events. You cannot have 3 US swimmers in the finals, you cannot have more than 1 judoka or 1 wrestler or 1 boxer per weight class, you cannot have 3 US Basketball teams, etc..so it is limiting on how many medals you can win because even if you have the 8 best 200 Medley swimmers in the world, only 2 can swim in the finals.

With that said, I believe it is much more to do with what I said earlier (healthy competition, top of the line equipment, great coaches, money invested in it from the government, etc...) than it has to do with genetics. Some are genetic freaks like Lebron, but most are just beneficiaries of a great system that really offers a lot of incentives torwards sports.

WRONG. I have seen swimming races where Australia has taken Gold, SIlver and Bronze.