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Originally Posted by jthig32
I bet Boll was a far more well known athlete than Dirk in Germany before Dirk won the title. He might still be, actually.
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Nah that's not true ... Boll is also one of the most underappreciated and underrepresentated sportsperson in Germany. He's also one of the people that would have been better of if he would have been born 10-15 years earlier. The chinese players weren't as dominating and it would have been a joy to see him compete with jan ove waldner.
As with dirk you hear rarely anything about him ... and that's sad because he's also a humble incredible person that's doing so good.
Dirk was even allowed to carry the national flag at the olympics ... he is and was known in germany it's just that the reporting about basketball/us sports and other small sports sucks in germany. Well you can hear alot about soccer
