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Originally posted by I_H8_Crawford@Aug 18 2004, 11:42 AM
And I think what bugs me about the gov't funding is the fact that the Liberals mismanage so much of the tax money, and waste so much of it, then come back to us and cry poor when we ask for more funding for our athletes. Someone tell me that the athletes couldn't have used the $250 Million wasted in the sponsorship scandal? But instead that money is just going to the Liberals' good buddies, because we know that is so much more important to Canadians.
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My point is that its not so simple to say that ad money or any other mismangeg $$ would work its way through to athletes. If that $$ got magically returned to the government, and choices had to be made what are the chances that athletes would see that money? Lobby groups would push towards increased healthcare spending, infrastructure.
Not even lobby groups, if $250 millon was suddenly free to spend on anything, and it went to referendum, with options such as healthcare, education etc on there with amateur sports, what are the chances that Canadians would have that $$ got to sports?
As far as personal bests...my point was that, before athletes and media lay the whole blame on inadequate funding, they should meet or exceed personal bests in the biggest races/events at the Olympics. If they get a personal best, and its 12th best in the competition, then there is more argument that something such as increased funding would help them get better...but just showing up, and performing poorly should'nt automatically allow the excuse of underfunding as doing poorly.