I suppose this is why the US isnt producing those elite HWs anymore.
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Lottery funding is why we’ve improved exponentially in he Olympic medal tables. So all sports reallty.
If you’ve belt a velodrome people are gonna cycle in it. If you’ve an Olympic canoe circuit or whatever that’s actually called people are going to use it. Also Britain is really small.
We can get people into these national programs and they can travel there.
We’re probably on the cusp of a real golden age in British sport generally.Comment
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the reason im talking about black people specifically is because it's an easier comparison between the 2 countries. We have 1.8m black people in boxing, yet there are more elite black british HWs than american.
What makes sense to me now is that if you're a big black guy in the US, you have Basketball and Football to go to. Eg wilder and brezeale are failed basketballers..which shows they'd rather have had a career than than in boxing.
if you're a 5ft9 140lb black kid in america, you're not going to either of those sports, which is why there are plenty of elite black american boxers at those levels, you with me?
meanwhile if you're a 5ft9 140lb black kid in the UK, you want to be a a football/soccer player (even the **** ones these days at on Ł100k a week).
then you also have mma in the US.Comment
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guys like joey and nick bosa...and chase young...can make 40 mil guaranteed by age 22....and theyll be avaible for a new contract by 25/26 which could be massive....and theres tons of guys like this
guys in the nba are making 12-15 mil a year to play 15-20 mins a night and come off the bench.....
compare that to the american boxing landscape where it takes years to build your name to the point where youre making 4 mil a fight....Comment
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Race has nothing to do with it. No one, in this day and age, says, “Well, there’s a lot of black and Latino folks in boxing. Screw them.” I’m sure the U.S. basketball team isn’t treated with contempt. The U.S. simply doesn’t support sports with public money. In Britain it’s expected that elite athletes will be on the public dole. The U.S. has never embraced that.
Furthermore, boxing is a very popular sport in the U.K. It isn’t in America. Makes sense that the U.K. would find it more heavily.
Finally, while PEDs have always been a problem in America, they never had a state-sponsored doping program. The USSR did.Comment
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lol well facts are the facts buddy.If you look at the history of roids and were it started.It started in Germany in the 1930s.testosterone was the first of many kind that was used originally to treat depression then the Russians used it on there athletes in the 1950s.And Hitler had his chemist take a crack at it as well.he wanted to dominate the Olympics but failed do to Jessie Owens.And now you look at today's Europe it's no different when it comes to there beliefs about body enhancement drugs.So yea i would say my points here are validComment
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Oy Vey you are right. I was in one of the camps and the Germans were taking drugs to make them strong. one German broke the necks of 3 million ***s without stopping or getting tired. I was able to sneak under the fence by stripping naked. it was 30 below zero and I was dying but a pack of wolves found me and protected me and fed me. then I walked 1000 miles to safetyComment
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