“Olympians might inspire other Olympians – but as physical and psychological outliers they have absolutely no impact on the behaviour of the general public. Ask the Finns, who abandoned the state-sponsored pursuit of medals and spent the money instead on active transport and accessible facilities. They barely win anything any more, but they have the most active and healthy old people in the world. In Britain we have a sack of gold and an obesity crisis.”
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Olympic snake oil
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Posted 3 years ago #
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You can extrapolate that to almost any professional or high level amateur sport. Football is the classic example.
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The Finns do quite well at football
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The Finns do quite well at football
Only this year - first major tournament they’ve ever qualified for
Probably makes sense not overpursuing Summer Olympic sports - culture is more winter sports, especially ski jumping and ice hockey, and motor sports (esp rallying)
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