Yeah, I’m sure one half testicled man is gonna convince the OP of the towering masculinity of rugby :).
Does anyone else find it funny that “Rondembo” sounds like the name of a Brazilian soccer player?
I didn’t, but I do now!
Im pretty sure that the USA cares about the Olympics and im also pretty sure that if you analysed how much money and resources that it invested into the Olympics it would dwarf any other country bar perhaps China. If we look at Olympic medals to population or you’ll find the USA ranked 44th or as Olympic medals to GDP it languishes in a pathetic 75th place. You may find some anomalous results here with regard to countries with extremely low populations like The Bahamas skewing their ratio however in general you would find it hard to argue that the US outperforms countries like Australia with a population of 21million which is represented across the board in almost every sport (including amercian-centic ones) at a level far higher than would be expected statistically.
America certainly dominates in zombie sports. We have coach Romero to thank for that. He came as an unknown out of Carnegie-Melom back in '69 and we have never looked back. I know some people are going to point to Britain’s team in 2002 led by Danny Boyle, and how they are more athletic. That may be true, but they never had any teamwork. Under Romero, our zombies swarm, and a swarming defense is how you when games. It all goes to the final score. The American zombies have more true apocalypses than any other nation.
Well if we go down that road, how about New Zealand? We pretty regularly dominate sport and win world championships (RWC anyone?) despite being smaller than Sydney alone.
… wait, so if I’m flipping through channels and zap through a sports event, or if it gets mentioned in the news and they connect direct, I count as “having watched it”? Does it also count if they just mention it in the news?
Wow, I sure watch a lot more sports than I thought I did.
Probably not, in either case. While the research techniques for determining TV viewership undoubtedly vary from country to country, at least in the US, you’d need to actually stay on the channel for a period of time (at least more than a few seconds) for it to really “count”. And, mention of the game on a news broadcast (even if they show a few clips of the game) almost certainly wouldn’t count.
Let’s me share light on this topic and this popular misconception. After the collapse of the USSR the USA was the dominant figure in Olympics starting from 1996 to 2004 when the first position in the golds standing was taken over by china in the 2008 olympics. Many sports analysts predict tht china would take the first position in the medal standings at the upcoming 2012 olympics. Let’s talk about when the craze and spending on the sports field was at it’s highest(during the cold war). The USSR at seven of its nine appearances at the Summer Olympic Games, the team ranked first in the total number of medals won, it was second by this count on the other two. Similarly, the team was ranked first in the medal count seven times and second twice in nine appearances at the Winter Olympic Games. So clearly when there was extreme competition the USA at most held on the second position during olympics from 1952 to 1992…these facts clearly state USA is not the dominant sports country instead this dominance keeps shifting from period to period and is multipolar… and what the author of this thread says about USAs dominance in the respective sports of baseball, basketball, football(don’t confuse with soccer) is basically a sport which only America truly specializes and is not much popular at a world stage…
While you make good points I think they’ll fall on deaf ears - this thread is nearly a year old and the original poster has been banned.