Continuing from Part 7, one last stop on the historical and world-tour of sports dominance before I can spend another 80 weeks talking about the US (ok, maybe only 2 more weeks). And that stop is in Communist china. Because, as you’ll see when I quote some statistics below, the Chinese showed some outright ass-kicking dominance in Beijing in 2008, at least in the handful of sports that they targeted. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.
In many ways, China represents, in a sense, the logical end result/culmination of everything that had gone before in both the earlier Communist and Socialist sports machines. Basically, they seem to have taken a bit of the best from each of the systems and integrated them into an optimized whole. Hopefully this will make more sense in a second and, frankly, I await a flood of Chinese sport secrets to flood the market any day now.… Keep Reading