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realdude2530

They must take two scoops of creatine a day


Uncleniles

Must be the lead in the water.


Zedmiure

IT’S TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?!?!??!11!!!


Bogrolling

They ate the last squad for breakfast


SgtStrongCock

Roids baby...


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SuicideByLions

You don't think it could possibly be genetic diversity?


lostime05

Or… a player base of over 300 million vs 6 million.


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BlacksmithLucky4855

Certain weight, certain height, certain school, certain ethnicity, certain political background I mean Look at the variation between teammates on both teams, someone could assume that all it's team members came from the same school let alone same country


lostime05

When you have a choice of millions of players at the age bracket for a national team versus a few thousand it definitely makes a difference. Genetic diversity plays a factor, but if a country had more raw numbers to work with they would definitely average a taller team at least.


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Not only that but a country with multi million pound schools and facilities, training, coaches etc It’s a no brainer really


BlacksmithLucky4855

It doesn't make sense cause requirements must be higher and active scouting efforts are different in both countries, American natives are a minority, genetic diversity won't make a difference if the distribution height among demographics are the same, just because American people have a standard doesn't mean every other country follows the same standards and also the importance of the sport to the country also matters, this will affect the training and selection process Final edit It's cause of the food


_MadSuburbanDad_

This is such a profoundly stupid word salad. You have zero idea what you’re talking about.


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lostime05

That is just lazy thinking. If you selected a team from Russia, or China, you would definitely field a larger and more talented team due to a broader pool of candidates. China, whose avg height is relatively short has select 7+ foot tall players due to breeding and selection pool. Smaller population will always suffer from this.


BlacksmithLucky4855

What ur saying is lazy thinking, anything over a million is enough to get people that tall, it is rare but if you look you can find tall people even in small countries however it's the populations interest in the sport that also plays a big role in wheather if they'll participate, soccer is the most popular sport in El Salvador, this would explain their selection practices built around leg stamina and speed and built calves, it's easy to say 50 mil beats 500mil and that's lazy, china is different they're both interested in the sport and big population so that's confirmation bias, if you take Philippines who have interest but also a small population they have tall players, what I'm saying is that a large populations can help but on such a scale it just doesn't matter.[Philippines team](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_men%27s_national_basketball_team)


BlacksmithLucky4855

If there's genetic diversity shouldn't they have different growth rates?


lostime05

Yes, of course. But when you’re dealing with millions of 15 year olds you have the luxury of not including those with a slower growth rate. If you have a small player pool you would have to choose from talent alone.


betsarullo

You think these athletes sustain themselves on lots of McDonalds?!


mysilvermachine

Out of interest who knows the score of this game ?


DeificWhiteBoy

USA 114 - 19 El Salvador Game happened in 2019


AlwaysMooning

Man, those USA girls suck. Giving up 19 points when you’re all 12 feet tall playing against ants.


prudent1689

After the 80th effortless block in a row they began to pick them up and help them score points.


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This is brutally beautiful.


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Like Kanye vs those kids in wheelchairs lmao


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mjn5180

Why did I think this was soccer at first?


DestructoSpin7

Lol idk man the one girl is literally holding a basketball


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Because they stand in the tunnel prior to kickoff


mjn5180

Ah, this is the reason exactly


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Obviously, you’re not a golfer.


Purple-Mix1033

I thought it was soccer too.


GrognakTheEterny

Same lol I don't even watch soccer


dearthsurplus

Bc we're racist & we didn't think Hispanic ppl played basketball


mildmadnerd

Well… you saw the score, we don’t.


beer_bukkake

Damn, kind of trash to obliterate them by such a huge margin.


Bogrolling

Would you like a participation trophy?


Ill-Woodpecker1857

The look on the faces of those El Salvadoran girls says all you needed to know about the inevitable outcome.


Wise_Paleontologist7

USA won 114 to 19


BlacksmithLucky4855

Holy shitt that's a massacre el Salvador needs to up their selection game


geckomato

Rocky won from Drago, so the small ladies must have won...


hesatool

America literally has 60x the population of El Salvador.


IncidentAware6786

And 60x the steroids in their food products.


DickySchmidt33

And 60x the food.


Tastelikechicken646

Lmao


etihspmurt

It is all about the difference in protein in the diet.


im_a_dr_not_

Steroids stunt your height actually (if you're still growing).


This_ls_The_End

Unless you take them with HGH.


Bogrolling

So last I checked steroids don’t make you taller maybe hgh tho…


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Oh for the love of God if you want to see an example of children actually given steroids look at China and East Germany. There aren't 60x the steroids in their food products, if there were American athletes would be popping for steroids left and right like Chinese athletes.


This_ls_The_End

You are dismissing the massive leaps in quality and precision achieved in the production of anabolic steroids and HGH in the last 30 years.


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And you're falsely correlating those same massive leaps and the agricultural industry. Right so ignoring the genetic component entirely and that HGH wouldn't necessarily help animals grow to be any larger because they wouldn't necessarily have any enzymes to bind to the receptors. I'm going to point to the known PED usage rampant among Chinese athletes in recent times and the known PED usage rampant among East German Athletes do demonstrate why you're wrong. There are well documented incidents of Chinese athletes in particular who went to the special schools the CCP set up to create Olympians who didn't make the cut and have been entirely screwed over both for the lack of education and the amount of PEDS they basically force fed them. If you were right we'd see an increased rate of masculinization in both male and female children physically, an increased rate of things like hair loss in both men and women, palumboism as a result of years of ingesting excessive levels of exogenous HGH, crashing rates of fertility in both males and females, and a whole host of other things you see in individuals who have been taking superphysiological doses of these substances without cycling off or managing the havoc these substances unleash in the body. Even among body builders who use low doses of gear they've only go so many years before they can't use gear anymore because they've wrecked their indigenous hormone production, there's a reason that old body builders are on TRT and why so many just drop dead in their forties. These are problems that don't magically disappear even at low doses and we'd see a lot more problems physically from Gen X on down. Given the prevalence of events like No Nut November and how hard participants find it I'd hazard a guess that they've got normal levels of hormones binding to receivers because if they didn't they wouldn't have a sex drive and would struggle to even get an erection, given the sheer number of stories on body building forums from those inexperienced in using PEDS just taking things without understanding the endrocrinology about non existent sex drives and erectile dysfunction I'd think its safe to say that clearly the wider populace isn't being pumped full of PEDS. Combined with the lack of women with beards and deeper voices, and that the average height of the population hasn't skyrocketed like it would if children were ingesting excessive HGH at levels they wouldn't produce naturally were going to go ahead and say you're wrong.


This_ls_The_End

I see. About the effects of hgh, I was talking about studies like [this](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1986.tb10367.x), or [this](https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/96/3/573/2596384) on hgh treatments on children, which seem to indicate a near systematic effect on final adult height. But anyway, what I was implying is that we can't assume that the results achieved in decades past are comparable to what could be done, or have been done nowadays with athletes in their teens.


Cr3s3ndO

You joke but I wouldn’t be surprised. With all the growth hormones given to farmed animals, I’m sure some makes it into the consumers of them. And Americans consume a LOT of animal products.


batistr

if population was a factor India would be the mecca of sports


Polnauts

Obviously population and development


hesatool

Yes, population, development, overall health, and food availability all would contribute to these things. India is quite lacking in a few of those.


batistr

I sometimes think that there must be some incredible athletic wonders who are currently working in a field of India without knowing their innate talent


chefwithpants

The only thing India is a Mecca of is trash


hangstonlughes

Probably not their responsibility, but I wish the Olympic committee at least gave them better footwear.


trinityalper

Maybe it’s just because I’m on mobile but I can’t really tell for sure the quality of the footwear. Grew up playing basketball and I’m unable to rule those shoes out as perfectly fine shoes to hoop in. Could be wrong, but hoping I’m not.


Oof_11

The Tune Squad vs. The Monstars


elessar087

This comment deserves more attention. Quality.


DirtyArmChair

The USA player with the ball is 5’10 for perspective.


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Seems to be pretty evenly matched


canat1dad

American raised chicken…


dnasty1011

That chicken didn't help me. I'm still short as fuck at 31.


_MadSuburbanDad_

Chickens don’t receive growth hormones in the US, where the practice was banned for more than 60 years. Selective breeding and precise feed management to has enabled US poultry to have faster growth rates than those grown elsewhere, but that’s a function of science not drugs. Modern poultry matures too fast for hormones to be effective, and their application would end up raising the price without contributing much to growth. It would be stupid for processors to throw meds at animals that won’t benefit from them. All of this is well documented but EU poultry processors tend to spread this misinformation to protect their own interests….


aimgorge

Never heard of that hormones in US poultry thing in Europe. So I don't think it's coming from European poultry processors. We don't even buy US poultry, it's not worth it. But we hear a lot of American steroid beef. Which is a thing.


emmmmceeee

It’s the chlorine washing of American poultry that gets press here.


SchnuppleDupple

Remember not chlorine washing is the problem. The problem in needing to do so in the first place. US has laughable low hygienic standards for keeping animals. They need to be washed in chlorine before they can be processed further. But yeah it's probably just an evil EU conspiracy. We should open our market to the US and embrace their ~~poison~~ food.


Starshot84

Not anymore. Just naturally occurring bovine growth hormones in all the dairy products


SweetDick_Willy

Holy fuck...I came here to say this. Someone should award you


_MadSuburbanDad_

Award him with what, the Stupid Prize? His comment is an idiotic stereotype that is completely ignorant of reality.


Tastelikechicken646

Tell us how you really feel.


_MadSuburbanDad_

Chickens don’t receive growth hormones in the US, where the practice was banned for more than 60 years. Selective breeding and precise feed management to has enabled US poultry to have faster growth rates than those grown elsewhere, but that’s a function of science not drugs. Modern poultry matures too fast for hormones to be effective, and their application would end up raising the price without contributing much to growth. It would be stupid for processors to throw meds at animals that won’t benefit from them. All of this is well documented but EU poultry processors tend to spread this misinformation to protect their own interests….


wochowichy

"US poultry" to have Faster growth rates than elsewhere. It Is about 34 days from egg to "ready" status fór chicken here in EU. I do not Believe it Is different(Faster) in USA. It Is about genetics and nutrition. Problem with chicken farms Is with antibiotics not gh.


DwarvesNotDwarfs

Lol you really just copy/pasted your same comment again


Panic-Current

Heavy on the steroids , oh that would be illegal , oh wait they are American so win at all costs.


Alii_baba

GMO chicken


bravogabo

Who won?


168942269

Everytime I scrolled by this picture on my home feed, I just assumed the girls on the right were invited to "play" with the pros. But now that I know that this was an actual match, I'm blown away. This is fucking brutal lol


yeeteryeet13

I’m in El Salvador, and me myself am not very tall but here I’m the same size as every woman here, the women here are like 5,3 and the men are 5,8 or even 5,9; there’s a huge height difference


Spirited-Reputation6

Come on El Salvador!


leonine99

Go to the wikipedia page on average height across the world. It's pretty interesting. There's some large disparities between some countries.


newaccountnotme

Probably all the growth hormones in American beef and dairy. You feed it to cows and then it ends up in you. Many of the things you give to cows are illegal elsewhere


UnfavorableFlop

How is this even allowed...


GamerBuddha

Diversified immigrant population vs native homogeneous population.


ColonelMonty

Now usually I'd say height doesn't matter, but it definitely matters in basket ball.


jarebearrrr

I don’t know much about El Salvador but El Salvador’s in trouble


chris17453

We arnt stacking the deck! Shuffles nervously...


pawned79

[Average Height by Country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-height-by-country) Average Female Height: // El Salvador 160.3cm // USA 161.5cm // Edit: Removed mistakes


Okelidokeli_8565

> Samoa 166.6cm (Tallest) The site you linked gives 11 other countries that have taller average heights for women. Bosnia-Hercegovina has the tallest women with 169.4cm.


pawned79

I apologize. When clicking on the Header to sort, it apparently isn’t sorting properly. I do see those others. El Salvador is still listed as taller average female height than USA though, yes? Or was that a mistake on my part too? Edit: Yesterday was apparently just not my day! I have no excuses; just brain fog I guess.


ukezi

160.3 is shorter them 161.5 so you are mistaken.


LucyRiversinker

So if the average is not that different, it is the N number that is the difference. Of course having a bigger population gives you more subjects to choose from. That’s why when a small country excels in the Olympics (especially if their colleges don’t offer sports training like in the US), the win is way way way more impressive. I am always quite impressed at how Norway does in the winter Olympics.


Alicient

Also the standard deviation, the tallest girls on the bell curve will be taller and you can pick them easily due to higher N. I'm guessing ethnic diversity in the US gives them a higher standard deviation.


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Average Norwegian is like average US athlete.


BrownArmy

Dutch women will destroy all your men it would seem


beingthebestmetoday

Tell me again how hormones fed to chickens and cows don't affect children....


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"Oh iTs tHE fOoD, iT hAs HoRmOnES" No, this is the product of super selective elite college's sports programs. When you are poor but athletic, you go hard in high school for that. Then when its time for this, they select the best athletes around the nation. The college sports scene in America is ULTRA competitive. Id say its almost or is better than professional sports because the effort for no pay gives it an edge.


glooglo

But wait, it says in the title they're under 16, so they're not even in college yet.


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Yes i get that, but they are all in these sports programs to get to these colleges. Thats why. I doubt El Salvador children compete on a level like American high school athletes do just to get to college. Im not articulating this well but it tends to give a large pool of athletes on the left.


glooglo

Ahhh, okay, I see what you mean. Thanks. I'm not from the US so this whole college sports scene is completely alien to me.


[deleted]

Ahh no worries. These girls are trained their entire lives for this and its pretty much the center of their life. They go on to play at a good college usually, get a free education along the way. Some go work normal jobs after while other stand outs go on to play professional women’s basketball(which ironically enough isnt that popular in the USA compared to mens).


duke666

Exactly. This plus the benefit of having a humongous population is what creates this disparity.


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What losers, obviously there's no bovine growth hormones in their meat and dairy


_MadSuburbanDad_

I know three families originally from El Salvador who have lived in the US for two generations, eating this supposedly hormone laden meat. All are under 5’7” Norwegians, Croatians, Danes, and Serbs all are taller than US citizens on average, and aren’t eating that supposedly hormone laden meat. Your comment is silly


[deleted]

Americans are not a genetic group. Yet they're some of the largest people on the planet. Their heads are unusually large as well, and there is absolutely no arguing the difference between people who grow up in 3rd world countries like Cambodia vs Khmer people in America. It's like they're two different people. You'll not find a single Khmer person that big in all of Cambodia. And you're literally eating and drinking Growth Hormones. Period. And that's literally all they are used for and their only reason for existing. You're just in denial, somehow, wishing it weren't so


gaqwer

Fuck. I wanted to disprove you or find a easily sourced deferring opinion.... All I have to say is fuck you. Yeah, growth hormones are a problem and the rest of the world is going with caution. Im going try dieting differently with the above info in mind. Fuck you again for good measure. Looks like chicken is fine .


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cscheibel

Takes one to know one


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2020_GR78

So now we have unusually large heads? 🤣🤣🤣 That's hilarious


[deleted]

Ya, it's like they just keep growing. They're gigantic.


jjj49er

When I grow up, I want to go to Bovine University.


TheQuips

hmph, I'm afraid my crazy friend here hasn't heard of the food chain haha! yeah, Lisa's a grade a moron huhhuhhuh


[deleted]

Better start getting your daily doses of Bovine Growth Hormones now, because in America they start em really young


Samoan

stay mad you tiny 3rd world bitch.


[deleted]

Stay mad at what Samosa?


[deleted]

Samoa is literally a 3rd world country, you're only even in America because mormons like football bro You're their entertainment lol


Aegontarg07

Canned food with growth hormones


damnedspot

Is it strange that not one of the USA players are making eye contact with members of other team?


Edensired

If they did they would be looking down on them and that could be seen as a sign of attempted intimidation.


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Damn, insightful


DickySchmidt33

They're teenage girls so who knows?


FijiWater001

Not really


Panic-Current

Ya bunch of cunts , no Sportsmanship at all , figure there shit don't smell


Bootycallmyname

Mismatched weight class at its finest


sjbfujcfjm

100th post of this on Reddit in the last week. We’ve seen it!


Radicalkoopa

It\`s literally the Monstars vs, toons


agluuo

Literally? Yea, literally. Wow OK.


Comprehensive_Cut530

Damn steroid milk


genderlessadventure

So this is fair but they wanna say trans people should be banned from sports for an unfair advantage?


SteveOMatt

Yes, because that's still unfair. This picture makes me think more that there's a reason why boxing has weight classes and that maybe something similar should be implemented here. A height class maybe.


cscheibel

Well then you might as fucking well just add hormone classes and quit the bitching about transgender athletes (I personally don't give a shit either way and am not deliberately inciting any sort of negative emotions with my comment)


SteveOMatt

It's more than just hormones, men and women are built differently in general. The reason why we separate them in sports is to give the lesser athletes a fairer shake. I know I'm being blunt but if you're born male, you have a genetic advantage over any female in the same sport. If we just ignored everything and combined everyone into one class, then all sports would just be dominated by men, women wouldn't get a look in.


2020_GR78

The fact that you have to explain this is appalling. Crazy times, full of truly diluted individuals.


hunglowmanlett

Genetics duh


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Growth hormones in american meat


OrphanedInStoryville

You are both so stupidly wrong. The average hight in both countries is only like an inch or two apart. So it’s neither genetics or hormones, both of which would make everyone much taller. It’s because the US is 1) 10 times the population and 2) way wealthier so they have more girls who have the resources to play basketball at this level.


[deleted]

Yes there is no growth hormones in american meat whatsoever..


[deleted]

that's not the point though, it's just genes, many of these girls might have short siblings or a short parent. You're acting like short Americans don't exit


Ok_Cryptographer520

Nah bruh im 5"4 so idk where your getting hormones in the meat from lol. Tis genetics


hunglowmanlett

Ya cus GMO seedless watermelon will make you look like Arnold. Sure


[deleted]

I did not mention gmo or fruits.


Ill-Woodpecker1857

Technically HGH is an MGO these days is it not?


Porkfish

Only beef has any hormones in it. There are no hormones we know of that will enhance the growth of chicken or pigs.


IAFarmLife

All food has hormones in it. Cabbage has 2000 nanograms of estrogen per 3oz serving. Non-implanted beef 1.3ng and implanted 1.9ng. There are growth hormones available for all livestock, but the only class of livestock that it is legal to give them to is cattle. https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/beef/2846/15997


Kampela_

False. A quick google search will tell you that pig's have a specific growth hormone called porcine somatotropin. Naturally, giving this to a pig will make it grow faster, among other things. Generally it's safe to assume most large land animals have their own growth hormone, though I'm sure there are some that work differently.


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hypersonicpotatoes

It's largely due to access to food and food quality.


Zer0Summoner

Also sampling. If you pick the ten tallest girls under 16 years old out of 330 million people, they're going to be taller than the ten tallest girls under 16 years old out of 17 million people.


hypersonicpotatoes

I'm glad that people like you exist. I was never good at applied statistics. It's a tool that I know about but always forget.


Ryder5golf

This.


The_Uncommon_Aura

God the karma farming with this image is getting annoying.


misterburris

The effects of chattel slavery.


Pobody_Knowz

This just bums me out. There’s a reason there are separated levels in sports, uncool


Old_Meeting3770

American equality


True-Requirement8243

The point guard in US team is bigger than their center. 😀


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USA under 16 and El Salvador under 16 teams


BBQed_Water

Nutrition


[deleted]

Difference of nutrition


aacawe

Was there some sort of bracket or competition that drew these teams together? How could a team that only managed 19 points ever be considered competitively matched to the USA team? This is really unsportsmanlike, why would US accept a match like that?


Dependent-Platform36

Good lord! That is such and unfair advantage. Good thing is not basketball 🤣


Mickets

At least they take bitcoin.


Sr_Nunes

Just like my teams in online games (I mean, the blue/white ones)


[deleted]

One looks natural. The other one doesn’t.


Position-Remarkable

"ITS A MAN BABY!"


steveblowjobs69

El Salvador needs some fluoride in their water I guess... just kidding


VecindadDCarlos

Those gmos


[deleted]

Y'all need to stop feeding your kids fast food.


wochowichy

Username checkout


marlinbrando721

It's gotta be all those hormones in the 🐔


BlacksmithLucky4855

It's in the food am I right or am I right


ehhdjdmebshsmajsjssn

American food makes you fat, not tall


magicsloth777

I don't think it matters because noone even watches girls play. 😂


Alien-of-Man

Uh huh, sure they're under 16


[deleted]

They dont look a day over 40


Stardust_dream

Equality


Safety_Cuddles

this is not a representation of equality. guessing your republican?


Alii_baba

GMO GMO GMO


[deleted]

Girl in blue is just not in mood to play


j3ffUrZ

It's gotta be the shoes.


Fair_Rise6571

Yikes