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To me it shows how little he knows about China OR sports.

1) China does extremely well in soccer, in fact they are second in the world to the US (although lately, the US is not doing so well). Oh wait... my apologies, female sports don't matter, and thus no one cares.

2) Basketball is huge in China.

3) Baseball? Few outside of US/Japan care--that's a horrible example.

4) "Most Chinese don’t give two fen about the Olympics." Surprising to me after all this talk about the riots and pride associated with having it.

5) So what if China's main love of men's soccer and their team stinks? Baseball is our national pastime and how did we do in 2004? Oh, that's right, didn't make it past the qualifying round against Mexico.

What matters is not just one sport within the Olympics, but breaking past the stereotypes--hurdles, number of gold medals, etc. Sure they'll get depressed about soccer, but they'll buck up with any other result that they feel will off-set that--just like any other country.

Oh...and no one really considers soccer at the Olympics to be the ultimate thing--it's all about the World Cup (and then EuroCup in between). So to focus on soccer just shows he never grew up playing or watching soccer.