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I don't see why it matters. Look at the olympic sports, there is a reason countries such as Canada don't do well in them. None of these sports draw national interest with the exception of these 2 weeks every four year. Few kids grow up wanting to be an olympic skeet shooter or fencer. Your best athletes play hockey, lacrosse, and sometimes basketball or baseball.
Same goes for the U.S. in some areas. Sure the U.S. gets a lot of medals, but it's no sign of our national athletic ability. A very small percent of our population takes up swimming. Even less take up some of the other sports popular in the olympics. If olympic sports were treated as predominately as the NBA or NFL, we'd have triple the medals every olympics.
And I don't see why your country should change. Why force certain sports on your culture just for some nationalistic pride that will be forgotten in 48 hours? No one here can tell you how many golds the U.S won 8 years ago. Certain countries like China need the nationalistic crap to get by. It's why they pluck these kids out of schools at a few years old and train them night and day. Even then they can't compete in a lot of areas.
Lets be honest, if the U.S or Canada put more emphasis on these sports, had a public that actually cared about them, we'd have a lot more medals. For China this is their Super Bowl, for us, it's just a couple weeks of sports to tide us over before the NFL season starts.
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