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Blue_London said:
Sigh

Let's go through your list honestly.

Track & field: America produces the most athletes across the most events thats funding, not "more talented" — but Jamaica has owned the short sprints (Bolt and Shelly-Ann plus Elaine), and Kenya, Ethiopia and Morocco own everything from 800m up. Michael Johnson owned the 400, but that's one man in two events, not a takeover of the sport.

Biles: yes, genuinely the most dominant of the modern era. No argument.

Tennis: no. Steffi Graf is the most dominant player of the open era. 377 weeks at No.1 and the only Golden Slam in history, highest win percentage and most tour titles won. Venus doesn't belong in the conversation, and on the men's side, Black Americans have won zero majors in the 50 years since Arthur Ashe, while Djokovic, Nadal and Federer speak for themselves.

Basketball: Is an American sportn sport that isn't close to being as globally played as you think

Speed skating: Erin Jackson won one medal at a Games where the Netherlands won 17. That's not dominance.

Golf: Yes, he dominated his era.

So thats 3 people?

Having this discussion about football with you is too difficult because you are admittedly ignorant and don't have enough knowledge about the sport to even get into the small details of why you are wrong

Americans are not more special/talented than the rest of the world; it's simply that
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I wasn’t making that list to claim we always dominate, I made that list to show that in each sport when we decide to engage at some point we dominate.

Name another country where they top tier talent in so many sports. I know for damn sure England isn’t one lol.
 
TheNightKing said:
I wasn’t making that list to claim we always dominate, I made that list to show that in each sport when we decide to engage at some point we dominate.

Name another country where they top tier talent in so many sports. I know for damn sure England isn’t one lol.
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England: Formula 1, cricket, football, rugby, cycling, skeleton, boxing, netball.
Spain: football, tennis, race walking, MotoGP, golf, cycling.
Norway: they own the Winter Olympics outright — most medals in Winter Games history with 5.5 million people.
France: football, judo, rugby, handball.
Jamaica: sprinting, netball — 2.8 million people and they hold both sprint world records.

Again, you're confusing funding with special. America has an elite college system and enough money to focus on many sports at once. Other countries pick and choose.

Prime example: tennis and Italy. Italy is the best tennis nation in the world right now Sinner is world No.1 with multiple Slams, they've won the Davis Cup back-to-back, won the Billie Jean King Cup, Paolini reached two Slam finals in one year, and they have more players in the top 100 than almost anyone. Do you think Italians suddenly became genetically better at tennis? Or did a 15-year federation project flood the country with clay courts, coaches and junior tournaments? Italy went from irrelevant to untouchable in one generation of grassroots investment.

And that's exactly why football is different from everything on your list. It's the biggest sport in the world. On top of that, each nation needs a footballing identity to give an advantage. England is the proof for a period we tried to produce a Busquets, a Pirlo, a Xavi and couldn't, because that style wasn't in our football culture.
 
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