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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Wayne Gretsky destroyed hockey... until the other players stepped up to the new level of play he represented. Instead of whining or walking away, they accepted the challenge.
Faced with a challenge to do better, some people accept it and compete.
Others prefer to complain.
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Regarding sports, there are countries that dominate some sports (at least in the past):
Karate, Judo and Jiu-Jitsu: Japan
Taekwondo: South Korea
Go (Weiqi, Baduk): First Japan, then South Korea, now China
Chess: Russia, now no-one dominates (apart from Magnus Carlsen)
Gymnastics: Romania
Ice Skating: Netherlands (male), Germany (female)
Athletics: Germany
Cricket: England
Darts: England (possibly, shifting to joint domination with Netherlands now)
Basketball: USA
In the USA, Amazon dominates with the Kindle, because of their huge webstore. In Europe, outside the UK, it was mostly a Kobo/Sony combination (with some fringe players), but now it's mostly Kobo, mainly because Amazon/Kindle are either not easily available (Benelux), or because Amazon has much less native language books than Kobo, last time I checked (Netherlands/Belgium, Germany, France...).