The US is the best sports country in the world. The US is the best at gridiron football (some of the best athletes in the world, most complicated sport besides baseball), baseball, basketball (second most popular sport), racquetball, lacrosse, track and tennis(all time most majors won and most Davis and Fed cups won), golf, boxing, beach volleyball, figure skating, snowboarding, skiing,shooting etc and the US is top 2-5 all time in wrestling, gymnastics, rowing, sailing, weightlifting, cycling, speed skating, alpine skiing taekwondo, volleyball, ice hockey. The US has won more than double the amount of gold and overall Olympic medals than the number 2 country in terms of medals, and even with: (1) the US being limited in the amount of athletes it can send to the olympics. Every Olympics, many Americans who are qualified to compete in the Olympics can't compete because there is a quota limiting the amount of athletes a country can send. If these athletes were from a small country, they would be competing at the Olympics. In 2012, Britain, because they were the host, was able to have more athletes competing than any other nation, yet the US destroyed them in amount of gold and overall medal won. And remember per capita anyway makes it impossible for bigger countries because if say new zealand won 3-4 gold medals, it would be impossible for the US or China to win as many gold medals per capita, and then you add the massive number of athletes restriction placed on the US and other countries, but mainly the US. (2) the vast majority of the best American athletes don't play Olympic sports, so this American domination even with the number quota is not even close to the best athletes the US has to offer.