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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Quite frankly we don't need to overpower the world in the Olympics to consider our country a great place. China, the US, and in the past Communist countries need to win these medals for propaganda purposes. This is why the Chinese have 11 year old gymnists that they fudge documents in order to prove they're 16 (The minimum age to compete in womens gymnastics), why the US in the past has taken steps to ensure their athletes are clean for testing days but don't care about doping the rest of the year, and why Communist bloc countries injected many female weightlifters and other female competitors with enough testostrone to levels exceeding most men.
The whole thing is a joke and my sense of nationalism is actually enriched when my country isn't the one partaking in excessive garbage to win the most medals. We have much greater priorities with our tax dollars and corporations their donations than Olympic athletes.
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Totally agree. Didn't read past this post so I'm sorry if what I'm about to say has already been said...
Whoever cares about the medal count at the Olympics should be contributing toward it's funding or encouraging the company they work for to sponsor an athlete or maybe even donating some of their own time or perhaps a room in their house for an athlete.
Maybe that sounds a bit much for one person, but with the national coverage the lack of medals is getting, it sure sounds like alot of people care about this. At least for the two weeks that the Olympics are actually on. Then the rest of the time, nobody cares.
What's with this mentality that the government should be spending money on stuff like this when there are hundreds of more useful ways to divvy up tax dollars that are actually beneficial to everyone?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for winning. Hell, I make my own contribution towards the sports I care about. Hockey. I buy tickets. I buy tickets to NHL games which train the athletes I care about. I even bought tickets and attended a Team Canada game at the Torino Olympics.
So what I'm saying is that if you want something, make it happen. And as for the one who complained that we have no national identity, you're wrong. Our true national identity is being showcased right here in this thread. A bunch of whining that nobody is giving people free money to play games.