An Olympics of Greater Equality?
On the previous post, the author already mentioned that the Olympics is fundamentally a game for richer countries . Smaller countries with little resources to provide right training facilities cannot expect to win at the international level no matter how much raw talents are found in their citizenry. On this note, this year's Rio Olympics so far does not look too different from others, with the usual major sporting powers (US, China, Japan, Australia, Russia) gobbling up a significant portion of medals on offer so far. The individual athletes of individual events remain dominant due to availability of systematic training to succeed.