Like who? Im pretty sure you have to be a US citizen to represent the US

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Anyway i see a lot of pressed non American ATRLers in here

This is factualy false, at least for the region of Europe I'm from.

Because of your swimmers and the amount of participants you have. But look at the UK in third, despite our small ass population.

Also we just beat you in cycling and hockey.

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No offense but USA always wins. Most advanced military too, China only beats us in numbers not tech. We can literally drone bomb whatever country we want and we do. Also the Hot 100 is the only chart people on here talk about. Stans from all over the world sit on the edge of their seats every Monday waiting for the Hot 100 update. Some even change their iTunes Store to the US or IPs when streaming just so it could count for us. Talk about winning

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Seriously look at the medal count then examine who is winning those medals...

Katie Ledecky - Swimmer (Gold)



Madaline Dirado - Swimmer (Gold)



Kayla Harrison - Judo (Gold)



US Women's Rowing Team (Gold)



US Gymnastics Team (Gold)




More than half of the US gold medals are coming from women. The US has one of the best athletic programs in the world for females. Other countries don't emphasize women's sports so the US consistently dominates and it raises their medal count. If the Olympics was just for men then the US would not be the superior country.

Not to say that other countries don't emphasize female sports but not as many do in comparison to male sports. This gives the US an advantage since it is one of the few that do. This explains why the US male athletes have far less gold medals than the women athletes. The competition is not nearly as saturated.



Also since the passing of Title 9 in the US, which was a bill to stop discrimination based on gender, the US has had more girls playing and participating in sports than ever.




Also:

Clearly talent always wins!

American culture is highly influenced by sports, so it's something we value strive to obtain greatness in

They really aren't any better though. They just have the population advantage.

If you look at Germany or the UK, you'd see that countries with 80m and 64m respectively are getting a lot more medals per population then USA.

In fact, if you consider that it would take UK, Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands combined to match the US population, The US would have 21 gold medals and this similarly developed group of countries with equal population would have an astounding 33.

Essentially US achieves no better results than Europe and they don't really excel any more than other developed western countries. And obviously less developed parts of the world need more time to build sports facilities, provide training etc. so India or China are not really fair game to compare.

But that "simaler developed group of countries with an equal population" would have 33 medals across WAY more athletes, so narrow it down to as much the US has and see how much medals they have

US is not the only country where women are slaying it hunty, many countries have great programs for female athletes.

US is not really dominating because of the program for female athletes, but more like because of their program for swimmers, thats where most US medals come from (past and present Olympic games). And whats good for US is that their dominance in swimming really pays off. One top class swimmer can fight for 10 gold medals on each olympic games, while top class athletes in most other sports dont have that kind of opportunity, like for example figure skaters have the chance for 2 medals at max if their country can make a team. Thats also one of reasons why you are doing so good when it comes to medal count.

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they know how to use doping. #lancearmstrong

Well what about India? isnt there like a billion people there?

They have many medals because there are a gazillion swimming events, which are dominated primarily by privileged white people with resources.