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Originally Posted by GirlySports
This is a good question. The olympic standard is very low. Should Canada raise it's own bar and only send athletes that make the top 16 in their field? Or should we send athletes in every sport and maybe one of those 25ths or 35ths could one day turn into a top 10.
I think age has to be a factor as well. Maybe send a young person so that they can finish 30th and get olympic experience for future success. Sending 50 year old fencers and shooters (even though great stories) really does defeat the purpose of growing the team for success.
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And by no means am I an expert, but I don't get a sense that Canada has a real strategy for succeeding at the summer games - and I don't see the point in sending people over that simply are not in the class of who they are competing with.
I realize many athletes are under-funded in this country, but I am really only interested in funding ahtletes that have world class potential. It's like anything - there MUST be a return on the investment. Even if the tax dollars allocated to olympics in this country aren't enough - the money that we are allocating must provide some meaningful return.
Otherwise scrap all the summer funding and let's focus 100% on the winter games.
And frankly I also get tired of the excuses. I don't want to hear anymore Canadian athletes complain about not having the funding, training time, yadda yadda - they may have valid points, but I don't want to hear them.