India vs Pakistan - Athletics records

[Cpt. Rishwat]

How do you defend Indians beating their Pakistani counterparts by 8-10 meters in events where every single inch matters? Why are some of Pakistan's national record holders barely state-level by Indian standard? Does population excuse explain that too?

It's because you guys are naturally gifted athletes, probably bigger, stronger and better looking too, not to mention you are all CEOs of US top companies which makes Indians sought after immigrants and Hollywood heartthrobs. Hope that helps.

 

[enkidu_]

Agreed, and this is why that comparison doesn't make sense.

As for your population logic, you are the only one here who believes that a nation of 200 million can present it as an excuse in any way, no one else has bought it, not even Pakistani posters. Creating athletes isn't a lucky draw where you find a few genetic freaks and throw them to the trainers. These are humans with similar human anatomy, and when you have one set of athletes outperforming others by such a huge margin, you gotta start looking at some other factors. In India-China case, that factor is affluence and resources, but when I look at Pakistan, I see nothing. We are both two poor 3rd world nations with corrupt sporting bodies.

Open a thread still, beginning with the salam and all, so we can all give our unbiased views and analysis - like here - on why Chinese might (I'm not even sure ???) be better than Indians in athletics.

And for the bolded part, yes, but you have 1.1 billion extra-pop, that's the WHOLE POINT.

We're not talking of 10 millions or 100 millions, but 1.1 BILLION pop difference, that's HUGE.

This pop difference alone would be the second largest country in the world, after China.

So that nullifies the "similarities" in GDP/capita and middle-class (potential athletes).

 

[CricketCartoons]

It's because you guys are naturally gifted athletes, probably bigger, stronger and better looking too, not to mention you are all CEOs of US top companies which makes Indians sought after immigrants and Hollywood heartthrobs. Hope that helps.

This is rubbish. Indians and Pakistanis look the same and have the same build and girth in general. Nothing separates the two except the border.

 

[BlackShadow]

Open a thread still, beginning with the salam and all, so we can all give our unbiased views and analysis - like here - on why Chinese might (I'm not even sure ???) be better than Indians in athletics.

And for the bolded part, yes, but you have 1.1 billion extra-pop, that's the WHOLE POINT.

We're not talking of 10 millions or 100 millions, but 1.1 BILLION pop difference, that's HUGE.

This pop difference alone would be the second largest country in the world, after China.

So that nullifies the "similarities" in GDP/capita and middle-class (potential athletes).

Now we are going circles with this. If a country like NZ with 1.25% of US population can beat USA in many of these events, then there is no reason why Pakistan should be so much behind India with 1/6th of the population.

Like everyone else in this thread, I too will respectfully disagree with you on this.