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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve
All you have to do is look at Australia for the correlation between population and # of medals to break down. Australia has 2/3 the population of Canada. The difference? Sports culture.  |
So you are saying that Canadians are not as athletic as the aussies?
Hardly!
The main difference is the care and attention given to amateur athletes. In Canada they are ignored, starved, maintain full-time jobs and are expected to reach the podium every time or else the critics begin chime.
In Aussieland they are better taken care of, much better.
I liken this to our national anthem: nobody can sing from memory, yet all state they are proud Canadians. Our athletes go through the same thing: they are ignored/unknown most of the time.