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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Especially medals in BS sports that hardly anyone cares about when there's not an Olympics. "Ooooo we are falling behind the rest of the world because our women's sychronized divers are not competitive with the Chinese!" or "damn our national pride should be zero because our rhythmic gymnastics team blows."
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And that right there is basically why Canadian athletes still get so little funding, and why Canada does so poorly in the Olympics. The majority of the people honestly don't really care, and do not want their money going towards these so called "BS" sports. So if that's the attitude, then people really have no right to complain when Canada comes up short on the medals.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if more tax dollars were put into developing athletes, but I guess I'm in the minority here.