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It's interesting that this is occurring in an academic environment. Yet in athletics, China (or perhaps most Asian countries) tend not to perform as well in te
by canistr 15y ago
It's interesting that this is occurring in an academic environment.
Yet in athletics, China (or perhaps most Asian countries) tend not to perform as well in team events compared to Western nations.
- yoshyosh 15y agoI would imagine that their builds have something to do with it when it comes to certain sports, however, they excel tremendously in others. Baseball comes to mind with Japan being regarded as the #1 competitor each year in the world cup and Korea also being known as strong top 4 candidate. These could be outliers, but they present a case for Asian countries being able to compete on equal footing in team events.
- canistr 15y agoThat is a good point. Not to say that there isn't teamwork involved, but I would argue that baseball is slightly different in that there is a higher emphasis on individual skill than on teamwork. The better counter-argument would perhaps be the Chinese women's volleyball team that won Gold Medal in the Olympics (can't remember which Olympics, but they won it)
- jamesteow 15y agoLots of these team sports require development leagues. And then decades of improvement.