25th August 2004, 08:34 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: St Kilda
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On 2004-08-25 08:11, Mr J wrote:
"Chinese who are currently leading have 2 billion people"
No, 1.2 to 1.3 billion.
"If we had over a billion people,is anyone suggesting that we would have won more gold medals?"
Of course. Sports is a big part of our culture which is what gives us the medals. With the same culture but a larger population, you would expect more medals.
Our medals per capita wouldn't increase in direct proportion though, since we're obviously good at some sports and bad at others. We'd saturate swimming, most team sports etc, but we still would be behind in athletics, gymnastics etc. To get twice as many medals we'd probally need 60-80 million.
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Better idea is to go 'head hunting'.
Oz such a lucky country, great lifestyle. Convince a dozen or so o/s good potential gold medal winners and go on an import drive. I'm sure some of the big sponsors would get involved :smile:
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