31 Of The Most Powerful Photos From The 2020 Olympics

Population size does not equal country size. The Phillippines are about the size of Italy, which makes them a fairly small country.

Works for me - you might need to copy and paste it all into your browser as it isn't showing as a clickable link in BP.

A white guy from the Netherlands shattered the hurdles WR by training in Kingston with the Jamaicans. It comes down to time, money, access, and fame. When your best athletes go into that sport, your country can dominate. In Jamaica Arthur Wint and Usain Bolt are national heroes and every kid grows up wanting to be sprinter. You don't need to build a special building when every road will do and every adult you know grew up doing it. In most of America every park has a basketball court and we make heroes out of NBA stars. US best athletes want to play basketball and can. Trindon Holliday ran a 9.98 100m dash in HS and decided to play NFL football. 9.98 was 5th place in this year's Olympics. When your country has money, your 5th best athlete in a sport can switch to something they are #1. US, Russia, and China get more medals because they can afford to support more athletes.

I've once seen something about feet. "Developed" countries put their kids in (too tight) shoes from an early age. Because of that our feet are smaller/ thinner than feet that did not have these restraints. Naturally developed feet are broader and the people have therefore a better stance, stronger feet and are faster because of it.

That would be fascinating to watch.

Black people tend to have longer, leaner bodies I presume that is why.

@denzoren, now I'm hungry! Green plantain, cassava, yam. Salt fish and bake for breakfast.

everyone is different its not because of which country they are from or live in...

You realize that 4 divided by 1 is 4, right? But if someone competed in 2004 and 2008, that's two Olympics separated by four years.

Well that backfired, dinnit?

I love when someone tries to be clever at someone else's expense but ends up looking like a doofus instead

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Black and brown people in the US are generally negatively stereotyped due to racism. A black excellence hashtag is a way to celebrate positive achievements by black Americans, as a contradiction to the pervasive negative stereotypes. It's not about superiority or supremacy, but rather a positive call out.

Nowhere does Jam Jam imply that black is better or that any other race is lesser. Its a response to the white supremacist who do think one race is better than others. When a large part of the country believes the only thing your race is good at is doing menial jobs like McDonalds, #BlackExcellence is saying even if she is working at a McDonalds, her race does not make her less valuable. She too can personally represent literally the best America can do. There's a big difference between saying someone is capable of doing well and saying one group is superior to another.

@elSti the two aren’t analogous. Excellence implies great achievements by an individual or group, while supremacy implies superiority of a race over other races.