Quote:
Originally Posted by WWC-Raffi
Population doesnt matter...they have the same number of athletes .....
|
Population doesn't matter? Um, sorry, but it matters a lot when considering the size of the pool from which a country has to draw it's top athletes from. A country with 320 million for example, is going to have many more times the athletes to pick from (for most sports) than a country 1/10th it's size. It's also going to have a far larger economy thus far more monetary resources to foster and train those athletes and develop organizations for them.
10 times the population, 10 times the wealth.
But we are trying to keep up. Honest.