Why China has gotten a lot more medals than the US ?

Question

I mean gold medal

Answer 1

The USA got 110 medals and China got 100 medals

Answer 2

Switch the US and China around in your question.

Answer 3

The judges sucked and gave more points to the home team even when they had a poorer performance.

Answer 4

Well seeing how much money they poured into their Olympics program, how many coaches and talent scout they have watching for new prospects.  Their strict training programs, I'm actually surprised they didn't completely obliterate us.  If they keep going at this pace, and the USOC keeps going at our pace, I can see in the future they will overtake the US in both the gold tally and the total medal.  

Contrary to popular believe, the USOC doesn't actually spend that much money discovering talents.  US athletes need to perform first before they get attention, this severly reduce the talent pool.  An athlete can be born to a family that can't afford to even start the athlete on the right course, or the family is just not into sports.  

Take my sport, archery, the US standard for coaching is extremely low.  The first level of coaching in the US teaches you nothing at all and you get a certificate after an 8 hour session, while the same level of coaching in Germany for instance, is a 7 week long course, 3 days a week.  So you have many unqualified coaches in the US, happily spreading improper knowledge and old wife's tale to new archers, and incapable of developing talent.  

If you look at any great US athlete, many of their journey to greatness is by chance.  It was by chance that Michael Phelps' mother brought him to a swimming pool, also by chance that Shawn Johnson walked into Liang Chow's gym.  The Chinese on the other hand, same as the Koreans in archery, doesn't leave that to chance.

Answer 5

US got 10 more medals than China, and China got 15 more gold medals than US.

China did really well this time, because of its homeground advantage and also they train very hard to win in this Olympics.

Answer 6

Umm... USA has more medals than China!

But China did get more GOLD medals than USA.