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Re:What makes a country good at football? by narag on Sunday June 10, 2018 @02:31PM (#17279478)
When a velodrome was built in my hometown, people were outraged. The cost was around $600k of 80's money. And there was absolutely no tradition in the area for this sport.

Less than ten years later, olympic gold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Moreno_(cycli...

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Re:What makes a country good at football? by EwanToo on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:03PM (#17279658)
The same could be said for the Manchester Velodrome, high quality facilities built in an area without much history of cycling and now we churn out Olympic medalists

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Velodrome

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