Why doesn't America clean up at Sports?

Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]And yet so much of "Modern" American Pop Culture has a large foundation in America Hating. Funny that.

I don't think that The Concepts of Rightists and Leftists are "The Same".

I think the Leftists are WRONG!

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Night you **** 🙂

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Channelling DMB if he had decent grammar and sentence structure, "some pretentions, simplistic shit" meaning "Fly you really are a shit troll, you need to get people to emotionally invest in your trolling."

Night you **** 🙂

Giving up already?

And after going on a name calling rant to..

OH well.

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What is your weird obsession with me putinbot?

It is connected to his Boxing Obsession.

Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]It is connected to his Boxing Obsession. [/B]

It's more than that, his boxing steroid GHB🙂 Plus he's old and doesn't want to admit it so he's an internet toughie🙂

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Team USA has as many people to choose from and more than Europe. Why isn't it champion at everything?

Take the recent Winter Olympics, won by Norway.

Norway has a population half that of New York City...

Even in the Olympics which it wins with 121 medals, you have to consider Britain gets 67 a country with the population of two states.

Even in things like heavyweight boxing which the US once ruled, they haven't had an undisputed champion in almost 2 decades.

In minority sports in the US like Soccer more people play it than in Germany, Holland and Italy combined.

Why is America so unathletic and why does it seem on the decline.

I know you have your own sports, which pretty much no one else in the world gives a shit about except Basketball that is, which you are the best at, thank god you have some tall athletic black men.

So in seriousness what's the problem?

I think the real question is "Why is Norway so awesome?"

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
I think the real question is "Why is Norway so awesome?"

I could use the decline in American Male Tennis. One player in the top ten, Isner at 9. I could use golf where 9 of the top 20 are yanks including the top two and yet again 5 of the top twenty are British. A nation with a population not much bigger than California.

Is it Burgers? That make America underperform? Is Trump the truest American of all?

Without knowing more about how the US handles it's approach to the grass roots side of global sports, (not including so called 'American sports', baseball, etc,) It's a tricky one. From the outside it seems like they really focus on domestic sports which only they compete in at a youth level, some track & field too and I do get the impression that there are a lot of tennis academies. I reckon the answer most likely lies in the grass roots side of things, it usually does.

Originally posted by samhain
Without knowing more about how the US handles it's approach to the grass roots side of global sports, (not including so called 'American sports', baseball, etc,) It's a tricky one. From the outside it seems like they really focus on domestic sports which only they compete in at a youth level, some track & field too and I do get the impression that there are a lot of tennis academies. I reckon the answer most likely lies in the grass roots side of things, it usually does.

I think it is just that you smoked too much GRASS as a kid and it gave you brain derangement syndrome.

That would explain so much.

Originally posted by Putinbot1
Well, this is another question. I just chose the most extreme example. I mean Germany and Canada also ended up above the US.

I could use the decline in American Male Tennis. One player in the top ten, Isner at 9. I could use golf where 9 of the top 20 are yanks including the top two and yet again 5 of the top twenty are British. A nation with a population not much bigger than California.

Is it Burgers? That make America underperform? Is Trump the truest American of all?

Canada and Germany are also awesome though.

The USA is by far the medal leader in the Olympics. As far as soccer goes the best American athletes play basketball, baseball and football. Soccer gets the athletes who could not hang in the big three.

Putin, population size doesn't necessarily have the effect on athletic performance you're thinking it does. It's not like twice the people automatically means twice the medals, or else China would win everything all the time.

America performs fine in boxing regardless, but there is a lot more talent going to MMA though. Most of the current UFC champs are American, along with many of the contenders. The closest competing organization outside the U.S. has a heavyweight champ that got largely smashed when he fought here. And a bantamweight champ that got slapped by an American gatekeeper.

Can't win 'em all obviously, but let's be real here...

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
I think the real question is "Why is Norway so awesome?"

Hey you 2! Stop bringing FACTS into a PootyButBot Thread.

Originally posted by playa1258
The USA is by far the medal leader in the Olympics. As far as soccer goes the best American athletes play basketball, baseball and football. Soccer gets the athletes who could not hang in the big three.

There are only so many elite athletes in any country. The three biggest sports in America are American Football, basketball and baseball. All the best athletes go to those because in America they are the most popular and that is where the money is. And America does dominate in those sports.There are individual athletes in those sports here who probably make more a year than most of the pro soccer team players combined. I'd hate to even toss out a guess as to how many kids are involved with those three sports from pee wee or little league up to the college level in a given year. The very best will make the pros and therefore never need to play another sport. But even for those who don't make it to the pro level by the time they do peek at some lower level it's pretty late in the game by then to switch to another sport.

Also most of the elite athletes of the world are playing a sport they have been playing and loved since childhood. And many of those international sports just are not very popular here with kids. Soccer is increasing in popularity with more and more high schools fielding teams but it's going to be a long slow climb to get anywhere near the top 3.

As for winter sports, take a ruler and level it across the northern border of Tennessee. Then draw a horizontal line across the USA. Everybody under that line probably sees an accumulation of snow about once every 3 years. If your family has to get on a plane to fly somewhere that you can ski then odds are you will not be growing up to win a medal in the winter olympics.

Lastly, and I don't want to make a major deal of this one, but a good number of the people who win medals for countries other than the USA spent the 4 years prior to the olympics living and training here in the USA. Usually on a scholarship at one of our colleges. Then 2 weeks before the olympics they board a plane; fly back to Cameroon or some such place and then show up at the olympics to compete against the country they have actually been living in for the last 4 years. That's bullshit in my opinion. Hell in the last olympics down in Brazil I watched a boxing match between an American boxer and a boxer representing Haiti. The kid from Haiti had been born and raised in Brooklyn his whole life. More bullshit. All that sort of crap started when they let Zola Budd compete for another country because South Africa had been banned from the olympics that year.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Canada and Germany are also awesome though.

Originally posted by StyleTime
Putin, population size doesn't necessarily have the effect on athletic performance you're thinking it does. It's not like twice the people automatically means twice the medals, or else China would win everything all the time.

America performs fine in boxing regardless, but there is a lot more talent going to MMA though. Most of the current UFC champs are American, along with many of the contenders. The closest competing organization outside the U.S. has a heavyweight champ that got largely smashed when he fought here. And a bantamweight champ that got slapped by an American gatekeeper.

Can't win 'em all obviously, but let's be real here...

👆 The U.N. voted Norway the best place to live on Earth.

Pride rules were much fairer.

I say Khmer boxing rules all round for striking + football kicks to the head. Now that's real MMA.

Originally posted by playa1258
The USA is by far the medal leader in the Olympics. As far as soccer goes the best American athletes play basketball, baseball and football. Soccer gets the athletes who could not hang in the big three.

Originally posted by Putinbot1

So in seriousness what's the problem?

Team American stopped playing kiddy games and decided to work🙂

Tone down your steroids and hgh and you might become more reasonable as well, although not very competitive in the gym🙂

Originally posted by snowdragon
Team American stopped playing kiddy games and decided to work🙂

Tone down your steroids and hgh and you might become more reasonable as well, although not very competitive in the gym🙂