Thread #154315750
File: world champions.jpg (1.2 MB)
1.2 MB JPG
map of world champions in major sports
>soccer, world cup
Brazil x5, Italy x4, Germany x4, Argentina x3, Uruguay x2, France x2, Spain, England*
>cricket, world cup
Australia x6, India x2, West Indies x2, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England**
>baseball, world classic
Japan x3, Dominican Republic, USA, Venezuela
>rugby, world cup
South Africa x4, New Zealand x3, Australia x2, England
>basketball, olympics
USA x17, Soviet Union x2, Yugoslavia, Argentina
>hockey, olympics
Canada x9, Soviet Union/Russia x9, USA x3, Sweden x2, Czech Republic, Finland, Great Britain***
notes:
>soccer
some (Uruguay) might argue that soccer at the olympics before the world cup existed is a major championship. It is not.
>cricket
t20 is arguably the most popular form of the game so I considered including the t20 world cup, but I've been told that t20 is gay. Also the same 6 teams have won both world cups, which is cool I guess.
There is also the world test championship, which would add New Zealand and South Africa to the cricket world champions, but it's not a real world cup.
>baseball
There have only been 6 editions of the WBC, I considered including baseball at the olympics (also just 6 editions), which would add Cuba and South Korea as world champions. Especially since many of the basketball and hockey olympic editions were similarly played by "not the best players in the world". But if I made an exception here it could be a slippery slope to adding gay tournaments like t20 cricket or something, so I decided not to.
>hockey
There's a wikipedia page for "competitions featuring NHL players". This list has just 5 different champions, would remove Great Britain and Finland from the champions list.
*England's win was rigged
**England's win was rigged
***Great Britain's win was with a team of Canadians
40 RepliesView Thread
>>
File: world champions with olympics.jpg (1.2 MB)
1.2 MB JPG
added the summer and winter olympics to this map, medal table winners
>summer olympics
USA x19, Soviet Union x7, Germany, Great Britain, France, China
>winter olympics
Norway x11, Soviet Union/Russia x8, Germany x3, East Germany, USA, Sweden, Canada
other sports need not apply
>>
>>
File: 1763925266483879.png (465.4 KB)
465.4 KB PNG
>>154315750
>>154315768
sportlets won't like this map
here's olympic medals btw
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>154315893
Basketball is a pretty popular secondary sport all around the world. Cricket and baseball aren't as widespread but they are extremely popular in a few places. Rugby and hockey are a bit behind these two I think.
Obviously soccer is on its own level but I think these 5 are clearly the next level of team sports. then there's a big jump to irrelevant stuff like handball or volleyball.
>>
>>
>>
>>154316023
doesnt matter, its about the olympics overall
you're from a third world country bad at it so you dont like the olympics, i get it
but the olympics are the canonical battleground of international sport between nation states, which is why historically all real powers (USA, USSR) have cared about it above all else
>>
>>
>>154316060
third worldists love to point to soccer because they get raped incredibly hard in the olympics
soccer is a poorfag meme and incredibly corrupt and a joke full of diving and time wasting, it's an awful sport and it's only "le global sport" because poors can play it and england spread it around the world
>>
File: 1775319352454169.png (45.5 KB)
45.5 KB PNG
dont tell me thirdies dont care about the olympcis either, they'd KILL for any success in it, that's why brazil hosted it in 2016
its their holy grail of sports validation, in the end soccer has always been a cope and the best they can get
>>
>>154316076
>third worldists
I am the opposite of that. I just like not being wrong, and it's a fact that soccer is more global than any other sport with the possible exception of track. It is literally just a fact, why are you seething
>>
>>
File: current world champions.png (251.2 KB)
251.2 KB PNG
new map drop, current world champions
>soccer
Argentina
>summer olympics
USA
>winter olympics
Norway
>basketball
USA
>hockey
USA
>rugby
South Africa
>baseball
Venezuela
>cricket
India
>tennis (last slam)
Spain
>cycling (tour de france)
Slovenia
>boxing (heavyweight champion, manlets need not apply)
Ukraine
>golf (last major)
Northern ireland
>motorsports (f1)
England
>>
File: 1766551878534374.png (343.4 KB)
343.4 KB PNG
>>154316143
>Northern ireland
irish*
>>
File: current world champions.png (290 KB)
290 KB PNG
>>154316143
fuck I was remembering the gay t20 world cup. Australia is the cricket champ right now
>>
File: current world champions.png (289.9 KB)
289.9 KB PNG
>>154316170
>accidentally filled in Switzerland instead of Slovenia now
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>154316766
Cricket is played in like ten countries, and half of them are absolute shitholes not known for sporting prowess. It’s the most irrelevant sport imaginable. India? Sri Lanka? Pakistan? Bangladesh? Zimbabwe? Come on
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>154326840
>>154316345
guys please this is a serious thread
>>
>>
>>154343901
that was strictly amateur until 1998.
I would sooner include the olympics, or even the premier 12. but I didn't as that would open this up to including other nonsense like the basketball world cup
maybe if I feel like it later I'll make a map that includes these secondary competitions
As for individual sports, I just don't see a good way to do it. The davis cup for tennis is probably the closest thing but no one actually cares about the Davis Cup right? tour de france for cycling?
>>
>>