So weird, right? Nobody would have expected that focusing on luxury EVs while the market was demanding AFFORDABLE EVs would have make you sink while the Chinese brands making those affordable EVs soar.
Why? Why did ignoring what the market was asking have consequences to my product?
That’s only partially true.
Italy is right now third in the rank (second in medal numbers) and the mountains and cold winters are only partially true.
Spain shares the same climate, with arguably more mountains and land where the winters are really cold and they are lagging a lot in the rank, they sent something like 20 people or so to compete where Italy sent many more {something like 120 iirc).
It’s not just having mountains and cold winters.
Spain has also Sierra Nevada, which is higher and also offers snow.
I agree on the infrastructure, but that makes my statement true because it’s then a question of investing.
Still, many of the sports don’t even require a mountain or a cold winter (see ice hockey, all kinds of skating, curling…) and yet, Spain has way less people there than Italy.