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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
My tax dollars are going towards their development - your damn right they owe me something. Even as a fan they owe me something. This is sports, not elementary school recess.
If they want us to care - they have to take the criticism along with the praise.
In short - they need to suck it up. No sympathy from me. No one made them become olympic athletes.
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They always have taken criticism. Fact is, step up and support them with at least a half decent backing and maybe they will get results. Its laughable that people think throwing a few bucks (barely enough to buy groceries in some cases) is worthy of expecting results.
Take this on for size - canada has a combined funding for winter/summer olympics of 40mil. It was considerably less just two - three years ago.
Australia - 160 million.
Seems a little more reasonable to cut them some slack no? You try concentrating on being a top calibre athlete for at least a decade while getting funding like that and competing against athletes who have one job - training.
If you think that increasing it is not worth it coming out of "your tax dollars" (which equates to a whopping $1.20 per person a year) then don't complain about production at the one event most people watch every four years.