Nuzzo wrote:dacher wrote:That makes no sense. Every country with professional police and military have what amounts to professional marksmanship teams --> shooting teams. Every country in the world does weightlifting. .
They shoot with air rifles and pistols in most of the shoot disciplines, actually USA won its 2 golds in the disciplines that were with real rifles.
Weightlifting for fitness and health and weightlifting for OG are two different animals.
You can say this about 95% of all sports. How many people at the gym run for fitness and how many do a 100 meter and pound their chest. It's the nature of the games.
Every country has their sports that nobody plays or very few. Their a reason softball/baseball is getting tossed. The x-sports coming to the Olympic surely are benefiting the U.S. Look at swimming or rowing, it's dominated by rich nations (not a dig against Phelps).