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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
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.
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But holy cow, could you imagine if the government announced that they were going to put millions into rhythmic gymnastics so that we could compete with the Chinese and Americans for medals? People would freak out.
I'd rather them fund an arena for Edmonton.