There’s probably an interesting answer in there if you dig up a timeline of Chinese city construction and cross reference with how developed a city has to be before they start putting in Olympic swimming pools.
I wonder if there’s any research into a correlation between how expensive it is to train for an event and the likelihood of a third world country winning a medal in said event. This criticism is often leveraged at winter sports but in the Summer games a lot of stuff like Dressage seems to only exist to pad out the stats for first world countries.
There’s probably an interesting answer in there if you dig up a timeline of Chinese city construction and cross reference with how developed a city has to be before they start putting in Olympic swimming pools.
I wonder if there’s any research into a correlation between how expensive it is to train for an event and the likelihood of a third world country winning a medal in said event. This criticism is often leveraged at winter sports but in the Summer games a lot of stuff like Dressage seems to only exist to pad out the stats for first world countries.