Dagosa, the problem is to be competitive at the Olympics level it is known to take as much as 10,000 hours of practice. It is not a case of ‘knowledge’. It is a case of start young with the requisite native talent, and practice, practice, practice, with competitive coaches.
I assume Mexico didn’t win much in the Winter Olympics but that is only a guess. So, let us assume a much lower level, oh, say, 3,000 hours of practice. Where are they going to get 3,000 hours of practice???
If they only had rink competitors at the 2014 Winter Olympics, that I can very easily accept. All it takes is a large building with a concrete floor and the ice equipment in the floor. There are plenty of families with money to build such a rink all by themselves. And, when you add the concept of a coop of higher middle class families, it’s a slam dunk.
Downhill is a different matter. That was my point. I know of no place in Mexico where there is any significant opportunity to practice anything involving downhill in the snow.
That leaves only a couple options. Rich folk who can have a place where there is a lot of snow, such as Aspen or Switzerland or ?.
Or, maybe take top athletes and send them to the location of the Winter Olympics a few weeks ahead with experienced coaches on tap, and assume it’s not a serious threat to a medal, but a case of national pride to have a team.
As far as assembling cars, it has been known for a long time that people of any nation can be trained to work on an assembly line and produce Toyota quality cars. It is a management issue. As GM was complaining US workers weren’t any good, Japanese cars assembled in the US by US workers under supervision of Toyota management were putting out great cars.
It doesn’t take 3,000 hours of training to be a good assembly operators. It takes training to know the job, and training to understand quality standards. And, the hardest thing for GM was, every worker needs a big STOP button if he or she sees something wrong. Management has to trust the workers with the STOP button.
Some years ago, I think Ford was the first US company to give its employees that button at each station. They had predicted those 'low lifes" (Yes, Virginia, US companies do often refer to their line workers as low-lifes, then wonder why there are unions) would have the line stopped all day.
Instead the number of bad assembled cars dropped dramatically, and very few stoppages during a shift. When they investigated they learned that each operation had only so much time. Up and down the line various assemblers would start falling behind. The first one who couldn’t complete his task hit the switch and in the few seconds before he hit the start button EVERYONE caught up again.
Before that, the same thing happened. But with no stop switch, that means all day long there were people who fell behind, and with no catch-up time, they just had to throw up their hands and let the operation go totally undone! Pretty much everyone had to from time to time let an entire operation go undone. All you older Big Three customers know of cars that were sold that way, even if you didn’t understand what made it happen.