Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Inside China's Secretive Olympic Training Program" video.

  1. China greatly improved in individual skill events (e.g. weightlifting, gymnastics, etc.), but still lag in tactical group events (e.g. men’s basketball, hockey, etc.). I think some countries are just better at some events than others. No matter how hard you try its difficult to be great in most or all events. Even the mighty US with all its resources can't do that. China has done very well to improve in a number of events where previously they weren't medal contenders while maintaining their dominance in events that they've always been good at like table tennis and diving.
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  2.  @KingKong11730  Strangely, Chinese can't seem to do well in any organized team sports but tend to excel in individual or single partner sports. And it's not for lack of interest either, basketball is China's most watched/favorite sport. Maybe more people play table tennis but that's not a team sport and some wouldn't even call it a sport per se. Ping pong absolutely IS a sport, but that's another discussion. 😄 Also while basketball is widely played, I don't know if its more popular than soccer or ping pong though. As for China not doing as well in team sports, well I guess it depends. If we're talking about sports like soccer or basketball, I think a part of that comes from genetics. Some demographics of people are simply built better for different sports. Chinese people simply having tall people isn't enough to turn them into the next Shaq or LeBron because they simply don't have that kind of body type coupled with raw basketball athleticism that they and many other black males do. Heck no other demographic of NBA players other than black players have that kind of athleticism on a large scale. Similarly when it comes to soccer and a number of other team sports, no matter how big some Chinese or Asians are, they're still often smaller in size and/or stature then many non-Asians are. In the history of the World Cup only South Korea has ever made it to the top 4 when it played on its home soil, otherwise no Asian team has gone that far since. This doesn't mean they can't win against non-Asian teams, but its usually a surprise when they do beat a top world team rather than seeing it as a normal occurrence. So maybe changing the way they play or train might help somewhat, but it can never overcome the genetic component involved. It's just in the culture. Chinese kids/students are repeatedly drilled hard on repetition and memorization over and over. Creative endeavors are almost completely neglected. The result is that you get kids who are very proficient students and can get good grades, but can't innovate on new ideas or creative endeavors. So you get kids who will get into top schools, but they will almost all become obedient employees and very few will try to create a start up. I think this has changed dramatically in the past 10-20 years. Chinese people aren't just good at copying, they're also good at taking something and making it better. The smartphone industry is a perfect example of that. Even just 10-15 years ago, the phones that came out of China were looked at as being cheap, inferior alternatives to Samsung, Apple and other brands. Nowadays Chinese phone makers are leading the field in hardware and are steadily improving on the software side as well. The cameras on Chinese phones are consistently as good if not superior to Samsung and Apple these days and they're leading the pack when it comes to foldable phones. Huawei was just on the cusp of possibly becoming the next big global smartphone brand in the world until the US started slapping sanctions on them. Their P series and Mate phones that took great photos at the time and if the US hadn't stunted their global growth, I think its quite possible that they would be in the same conversation as Samsung and Apple as a global phone provider. Now they're still hugely popular in China and many Asian countries, but without that full global reach. Almost all major Chinese startups were joint ventures with a Western, usually American company. Well that's not surprise considering that China was lagging far behind technologically just a few decades ago. Learning from the west and putting those lessons into practice is what made them the nation that they are today and now they've gone beyond just imitating and are now innovating. People didn't believe China could produce their own chips and now they've shown that they can. Sure they're not near TSMC (which started with some technology transfer from a Phillips partnership), but they're not that far off either and Chinese chips are now good enough that outside of speedtests and extreme use you probably couldn't tell the difference between a Chinese chip and a Qualcomm one. Going back to China not being as good in team sports, I just think at least a decent amount of that has to do with genetics and relative smaller stature which is also the reason why most every other Asian country isn't doing that great in team sports when they compete against the world's best.
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  3. Doping doesn't help you win in alot of events that require skill more than strength and endurance.
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