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Originally Posted by 21st centuryJKD
China produces a high level of gymnastics olympians, but that's about it, in all other sports they are par or below on the world stage. this is a very limited example, but may ring true, I don't know: in the METR-X World's Strongest Man competition there is one chinese strongman named Gu Yan Li, he is obviously smaller than the 6 and a half foot tall vikings, american, and poles that dominate the sport, but his technique in all events is unconventional at best. I can only assume thathe is in reality a power lifter who has rarely trained with most strongman apparatus. Maybe this is going back into stereotyping, but maybe it's because it is not a chinese national sport and that whatever trainers Li works with have their own unproven methods of training and doing these events. Also, the past two WSM competitions have been held in China.
I got on quite a tangent there, but it may ring true for other sports.
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Stop there before you make yourself look even more stupid. The world's strongest man - are you for real? Is this how you judge a whole nation's sporting ability? And even there you get it wrong - in their weight categories, China won eight medals (all silver and gold) in the weightliftiing in the 2004 Olympics. Great gymnasts true, but of China's
63 medals in the 2004 Olympics (which included 32 golds, just behind the USA's 35) only 4 were for gymnastics.
Fifteen were for
martial arts - including boxing, wrestling, judo, tae kwon do, and fencing (not to mention shooting and archery, also arguably 'martial' but not 'opponent' sports, ok). The USA's medals in these sports equalled thirteen.
Let's not set this up as a USA vs China in all sports. There is no point in comparing the overall best in the world to China since the history and culture of sport, not to mention its funding, is radically difrerent. Most of all - you're point is that the Chinese are poor performers in sport - you say bar gymnastics they are "below par on the world stage". America has nothing to prove, but you made a dangerous and stupid statement. You underestimate the Chinese massively and seem not to have any idea that China has a tiny MMA scene compared to the USA, because people are only just hearing about it - and all in a few large cities. China's relatively recent opening up accounts for almost all of the lack of Chinese participation in MMA to date. I'm n ot saying that the Chinese will dominate but you make yourself sound like an ignorant racist.