Is polevaulter Duplantis the most dominant athlete in sports history?
I just checked betting markets (bet365) for the olympics and swedish-american polevaulter Armand Duplantis is 1.03 (-333
If that's a bad take, where are all of the athletes from soccer dominated countries, playing the big 4 sports in Murica#1?
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I don't understand what 'soccer dominated' means in this context, but if you're asking why idk, Germans or Brazilians or French or Argentinians aren't playing the big 4 sports in the US professionally, it's because those sports aren't popular youth sports there, so few guys are playing it.
basketball is played in most of those countries but I'd bet it's outside the top 5 played sports in most other developed nations. still 25% ish of NBA players are from overseas and that is growing.
it's just assuming that because they're American they would somehow be better if they played it. And there's no evidence for that.
cracked me the **** up
I was joking off of Ricks point about pole vault.
That said it's tough to argue that if it was even close to one of the dominant sports here the US wouldn't be incredibly competitive on the world stage. It's what, the fourth or fifth most popular sport and it isn't like they are horrendous.
it's just assuming that because they're American they would somehow be better if they played it. And there's no evidence for that.
It isn't that at all. Nothing to do with them just "being American". It's because there's a huge population here and because they invest a ton of time and money into sports (including it being a huge focus of entire kids lives from a very early age).
I don't think that the US is often so dominant at athletics/track&field and swimming is because they happen to be American, and I don't think you do either.
If China, India and the USA all took an equal interest in football, USA would be third.
In reality, the USA will never be a force in football because success wouldn’t happen overnight, it would take 20+ years. Americans can’t be patient.
Maybe, India doesn't have the same resources to dedicate. Everyone there plays cricket and it's not like they're well and truly dominant.
In reality, the USA will never be a force in football because success wouldn’t happen overnight, it would take 20+ years. Americans can’t be patient.
Based on what exactly? A xenophobic assumption? They've been slowly improving and now have youth players joining elite European teams early.
It's nothing to do with patience lol, it's that most people here don't really care about it and it doesn't have the same social status amongst those that are learning to play sports to a competitive level.
Exactly. They don’t care about it.
You would need to change sport in school by having football as the dominant sport so kids wouldn’t be distracted by other sports and would have their football heroes on their bedroom walls, follow the team their parents follow etc.
all the top football nations have football as their number 1 sport.
I was being generous with 20 years. It’s more like 50.
Nobody is that patient.
Duplantis is dominant enough that he makes the sport he competes in boring.
But there have been plenty of other dominant athletes.
By the way ... Duplantis is faster than Lebron. He ran a 10.33 100m in a race with Karsten Warholm earlier this year.
Other dominant athletes right now .... Sydney McLauglin is pretty much untouchable in the 400 hurdles. Ryan Crouser in the shot put. Faith Kipyegon in the women's. Usain Bolt was just as dominant in the sprints for a decade.
I'm not certain it will happen. He didn't progress as much as I thought he would last year.
