I can relate to late 80s and early 90s and back then people realized we are good in certain less popular sports like wrestling or judo and we could bring in some medals. Hell, even weightlifting used to be quite good for us too. But right now the "people aka fans" only follow football, volleyball and athletics here on a wider basis. Swimming has gone down the rank since Otylia Jędrzejczak retired and we were quite bad for some years before doing slightly better again. However our historically medal-worthy sports like wrestling, judo or boxing have collapsed (everyone's doing MMA now) weightlifting is gone too and allthough rowing and canoeing also gave us quite a haul historically they were always even less popular than combat sports. Since the Kucharski/Sycz gold medal double and the quadruple sculls in Beijing there is next to zero noise there with the exception being Walczykiewicz in sprint canoeining. Like I said before, Naja has 4 medals from three Olympics and nobody here even knows what she looks like.