And the most athletic country in the world is....

Who let the dogs out?

if i'm reading that correctly, GB & NI got more medals than ethiopia, which is encouraging. surprisingly sweden only got one medal.

I believe something like 25% of the world's population comes from India and China but it looks like they are doing things other than athletics.

India's inability to produce competitive athletes despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into

America's inability to produce competitive athletes in sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey and many others despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into

Bingo Lingo wrote:

America's inability to produce competitive athletes in sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey and many others despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into

Sports?

HHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

football and basketball are played by freaks for the pleasure of dumbwits with the attention span of a goldfish.

Bingo Lingo wrote:

America's inability to produce competitive athletes in sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey and many others despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into

America's inability to produce great athletes in soccer, rugby, and cricket are nearly entirely due to the fact that very very few Americans play these sports at any level, especially cricket and rugby.

As for American hockey players... uh, there are lots of them. Take a look at NHL rosters, look at the number of Olympic medals US hockey teams have. You're way off on that.

And look at how many people play basketball, baseball, football, etc. You can't tell me those people aren't athletes just because they're sports that are played predominantly in the US. There are plenty of athletes in the US, just not in sports played by the rest of the former British Empire and Europe. Or, in the case of soccer, everyone else.

Hockey, dimwit, not that fighting on skates thing.

Bingo Lingo wrote:

America's inability to produce competitive athletes in sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey and many others despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into

Since the original poster's statistics includes women's athletics, one could argue that the US has produced a few competitive soccer players in order to field a pretty dominant team.

I believe the US has been ranked in soccer by FIFA recently, and I believe many hockey players are from the US as well. Are there a lot of great rugby teams from China and India? I would probably take a rugby team from the US over team from India or China. They would beat us in cricket as I think few American's know much about cricket.I wasn't trying to talk down about the countries of China and India, it is just interesting that they have such a large percentage of the world's population but if you look at the medal counts from the World Championships there is obviously a very small number of medals going to those countries. It probably comes from the country's focus on religion or family values over sports but it is still an interesting topic. As interesting as to why the Bahamas or Jamacia produce so many athletes.

Bingo Lingo wrote:

America's inability to produce competitive athletes in sports such as soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey and many others despite their population is actually a fascinating topic to look into