These people routinely get destroyed at almost every major world sport. Soccer, golf, tennis, basketball, olympic sports such as track and field etc. I'm starting to think that they must be genetically inferior or something because most Middle Eastern Countries are incredibly wealthy by world standards and developed, think Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates etc. Even underdeveloped and impoverished areas of the world such as regions in Africa produce great athletes, think Kenyans and Ethiopians in running/track for example.
I've been to a few Middle Eastern countries and these people have world class amenities. Hell, in UAE they have indoor skiing and ice rinks in the middle of a 120 degree desert. I've been to a couple of golf courses in the region that are as nice if not better quality than any I've ever been to in North America. The weather is always nice, similar to Phoenix, Arizona, so that's not an excuse. I even spent a few minutes searching for high profile Arab born athletes before making this post and outside of a couple of people who played Cricket, I couldn't find any. Why are they so inferior at producing all world athletes when every other region of the world from North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia all produce a plethora of world talents in various sports? I'm interested in hearing theories on the topic cause it has me baffled. You'd think with all that money and resort weather that they would at least have a couple of guys high up in golf and tennis rankings and have a soccer or basketball team that could hold their own.