Kamesh said it better than I could.jaydeep wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:06 pm Check Kamesh Srinivasan's blog entry on the same.
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Kamesh said it better than I could.jaydeep wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:06 pm Check Kamesh Srinivasan's blog entry on the same.
Ankita Raina would love to thank Somdev Devvarman from the bottom of her heart!
One would need to be pretty delusional to say the sport played in the US compares to one where Indonesia or Malaysia is a major force. The US wins 121 medals in the Olympics (even when their best athletes don't focus on most Olympic sports) while large badminton countries such as Indonesia or Malaysia wins barely a handful of medals. As a sports power, the US outranks most continents outside Europe. Also, the top US sports are professional sports with the leagues having billions in revenue and incentives for players to perform while a sport such as badminton is basically still mostly an amateur sport although the prize money has been increasing rapidly in recent times but is still quite small. As far as basketball being international is concerned, more "sports power" countries play basketball as significant sport than those that play badminton, for example. The "dense" argument only makes sense in the context of the sports power countries that play a sport rather than the sheer number of impoverished folks with minimal access to facilities that may inhabit a country which plays a particular sport. Even though India has a billion folks, it is really a very minor sports power country as exemplified by the 2 medals it won in the last Olympics.An extreme example is that Basketball(or Baseball or American Football) at elite level is popular in exactly 1 country but one wouldnt argue against it not being competitive enough because even though it isnt international enough, its definitely dense enough. Think of it this way, Michael Jordan wasnt even a proper international player