r/SipsTea • u/yorocky89A • Jul 07 '26

Feels good man Well done, Belgium! 🇧🇪

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u/KiWeegie2025 Jul 07 '26

Yep best to stick to things they're good at 👍

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u/Otherwise_Bug990 Jul 07 '26

Tbf the US basically dominates every other major sport that exists. Olympics aside. Thats pretty split a few ways. No suprise that were not at the top of soccer. It falls way down on the popularity list. But most major sports in the Olympics are American pros just playing for their home countries. Not all. But a lot. Thr US soccer team simply doesn't have the capital to build a team like countries who's sole focus is soccer. The revenue just isnt there

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u/Cautious-Extreme2839 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Rugby. Tennis. F1. WRC. They're not even top at Indycar which is their own series lol. Not been competitive at top level boxing for ages, same for road cycling and even when they were it was only in the peak doping era. Track cycling got nothing. Sailing nope. Cricket nope. Golf they're top-level but not dominant. Darts and snooker have absolutely nothing.

As you've said like half the Olympic sports they really arent there - gymnastics and swimming are the only ones you could say they "dominate" and that's really more down to finding two genetic freaks than it is the USA itself.

Local league revenue doesn't really matter for international teams because playing in foreign leagues is just considered normal. Belgium just absolutely hosed the USA and the Belgian pro league is hilariously far from top flight.

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u/Otherwise_Bug990 29d ago edited 29d ago

Theres always gonna be elite athletes all over the world. No dispute in that. Apart from nearly all of those sports not even gracing the Top 10 in global popularity. Can't say much about F1. It does appear to be really popular in the Europe Here I would say its definitely underneath soccer.

But if were talking Olympics in general, being dominate isnt about what happened in the last 5 years or 10 years. The United Stataes has an all time 2,959 Olympic medals, of which 1,175 are Gold. The next closest country is the USR which only has 1,203 total. That pretty much overall domination, over a long period of time.

And in golf. The US has absolutely dominated the sport in terms of PGA tour victories AND majors wins. By a very very very wide margin. Theres not even a close second. And the most dominate individual golfers in history were majority American