Based on your theory NL,
So 12 medals, say MAX 12 countries can get medals (other than China), you are saying only 12 countries will get good funding for table tennis.
So what about the other (close to) 200 countries? All screwed?
And now lets look at the medal countries:
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Where are they (the country) after they got the medal?
Look at your team USA for example - how much of everything was based on NOC other than the actual trip to Rio?
CCY did not rely on NOC of Chinese Taipei to get to where he is today
JO Waldner and Sweden's success did not rely on Olympic medal
South Korea's 88 had no olympic medal success prior.
So your view is totally off if you even ask - how many countries budget for the Olympics.
It should be how many countries budget for Table Tennis
And based on the "team sports" I mentioned, table tennis professionally is also a team sport.
How does your Fifa leagues, NBA, NHL, MLB, Chinese table tennis Super league + Korean Leagues + Japan Leagues + European Super Leagues, all survive? Its called clubs (teams), linked with corporate sponsorship.
That is how sports work - make it pro and it becomes a career path.
If you think NOC and IOC is the savoir of making table tennis budget improve, then you are really living in your own fantasy world (and in the way, brainwashed by ITTF to say limiting Chinese chance of medals is the best for the sport). As a person with both parents being doctors of TCM, my view is to fix the root of the problem, not just to address the symptoms. Chinese domination is not the root of the problem, otherwise how did we get pass USA, Sweden, Japanese domination? Today China is dominating, tomorrow it could be Germany, then it could be South Korea....
NOC and IOC may only benefit a limited (individual) few and that is normally after all the years and money spent on development. So who is going to pay for the development before they have a chance to become title holders? The Olympic Medal?
In most countries, if your sport has a chance to the medal - the sport federation doesn't necessary benefit, it is the player that benefits. Becoz of a Dima, it won't all of a sudden give all German juniors more funding and even if it does, why can't we make tt become a NBA where each player can fund a whole team based on net worths?