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Originally Posted by tranza
If you want to be an athlete here in Brazil you have to finance your own training. Even companies don't support it since there's no fiscal retribution.
Athletes down here in Brazil are true heroes.
Do you REALLY want to compare your country to a country like Brazil?
Wow, I guess it's even worse than I thought.
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No, I don't want to compare them. You got hosed this time, obviously.
And many of Canada's athletes have to go it alone too with little to no funding. They are no less heroes here as yours are there. I was just pointing out that Canada took some pretty harsh mocking criticism here last week and yet a country with 6 times the population as us won less medals, that's all. No need to get your postbot's feathers ruffled. :D
At the end of the day, to answer your original question, I'm sure there are those in the USA's athletics commissions who are looking at the medal count closely and seriously considering what to do about it in future, but I would hazard a pretty good guess that most average americans don't give a rat's ass about it as long as their country did well, which they did. Like others have said it isn't about what country wins the most medals, gold or otherwise, it's about the spirit of competition involving athletes coming together from every country in the world.