Same reason people continue to believe in a god. All around them evidence of the opposite and yet because they have been indoctrinated from a young age that it is so, you can not tell them any different. These North Korean athletes are the same.

The truth is that the best male athletes in the USA play basketball or football. This isn’t the case in many of the countries we are competing against. Until someone convinces the next Lebron James to pick up a soccer ball instead of a basketball, or until the next Cam Newton chooses soccer over football, we are…