RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

The success of Mennonite athletes at this year’s Olympic games has come as a surprise to some, but according to Dr. Heinrich Freud, great-grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis, this Mennonite dominance is “just as one might expect.” The award-winning doctor and author has been closely following the careers of a number of Mennonite athletes, whom he selected by the completely reliable and unquestioned method of looking at their last names.

Among the unwitting participants in Freud’s study are Canada’s Erica Wiebe who took home a gold medal in wrestling. Freud also observed midfielder Sophie Schmidt who just medaled in women’s soccer this morning. Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who won bronze in the heptathlon, is also in the study, though Freud expressed some doubt as t

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