why does canada suck at the olympics?? is it because of funding? probably has a lot to do with it. if athletes were given more money though, would that take away from the innocence of the non-professional idea of the whole thing? but then again, our beloved 2002 olympic gold hockey team were all professionals. i dont know the official rule about professionals in the olympics, maybe i should find out. or maybe someone reading knows the answer and could let me know. obviously there are no professionals in certain competitions. like shot put. is there a professional tour going from city to city for shot put? like 50,000 people fill the skydome and watch a shot put compitition with the grand prize 1,000,000? i dont think so. but if athletes, say, were paid by the government, say like 40,000 per year to do their event, so they dont have to work at the grocery store in addition to their training, that would definatly help. but then they would be paid solely to train for their events, and therefore it would be their profession, thereby making them professionals. and alas we are back at the begining of the loop. so i guess it is not necessarily lack of funding that hurts our athletes. somebody please tell me... why do we stink?
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
canada in athens
why does canada suck at the olympics?? is it because of funding? probably has a lot to do with it. if athletes were given more money though, would that take away from the innocence of the non-professional idea of the whole thing? but then again, our beloved 2002 olympic gold hockey team were all professionals. i dont know the official rule about professionals in the olympics, maybe i should find out. or maybe someone reading knows the answer and could let me know. obviously there are no professionals in certain competitions. like shot put. is there a professional tour going from city to city for shot put? like 50,000 people fill the skydome and watch a shot put compitition with the grand prize 1,000,000? i dont think so. but if athletes, say, were paid by the government, say like 40,000 per year to do their event, so they dont have to work at the grocery store in addition to their training, that would definatly help. but then they would be paid solely to train for their events, and therefore it would be their profession, thereby making them professionals. and alas we are back at the begining of the loop. so i guess it is not necessarily lack of funding that hurts our athletes. somebody please tell me... why do we stink?
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Hey Babe! I don't know why we suck at the olympics. But you're in the other room so we can talk about this if it's really tugging at your heart strings! :) love ya! I stuck it out with livejournal because it has these cute emoticons and other girly perks!
Is there a rule against professionals? I don't think so but I could be wrong. Funding I think has something to do with it. I think I heard the Aussies have about 3 times the funding or something. I also think it may just be a bad year. I think we may be better at the winter olympics too...after all this is the great white north ;)
- Dox
Well as commical as it sounds, a lot of events that seem stupid to us in canada are huge other places..i was talking to anthony at work (an ausie) and he said over in austalia there are tours for swimming..people make big bucks..they have skins (where the swimmers bet money and the winner takes it) that run huge money pools..i imagine in other countries other events run similarly..we know that in europe biking is huge..generally the canadians just go to whatever country there sport is majour in and competes over there for money..all in all i think that a lot of the canadian athletes make decent money, they just don't train in canada..so funding is no excuse
-steve-
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