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> I am one of those who couldn't care too much about medals or medal
> count, for many reasons listed above, but did tacitly support Beijing's
> 2008 and London's 2012. It can't be rationally justified but I have
> reflexive sympathy for the host. But that's me and to the extent I care
> about medals. (Don't believe me? Think this thought experiment yourself
> [vis-a-vis real athletes']: how much money are you _personally_ willing
> to give up and how much income are you willing to forgo to have your
> country earn an extra medal. US $100? $10000? $1 million? How much is a
> medal worth to you on a practical, personal level? Don't need to answer;
> question's rhetorical)

> I also think a lot of talk about China vs America is misplaced when in
> fact China is no match for America. Sailer's article perhaps implied
> institutional reasons; but even if China edges out America (which it
> seems to be struggling to do) never forget China has over 3x population
> of America. Take another example such as South Korea which is doing
> extremely well as third place (so far; doubt it will hold on)
> superseding Russia. In 2008 I thought South Korea did 6x as well as
> China and 2x as well as America on a per capita basis, and much better
> than Japan. You can do the rest of math on your own.