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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
BTW, it's not the government's decision to fund athletes; it's the people's decision to do so. We always bandwagon jump during the actual games when we don't perform, but pay little attention to the issues for 3 years and 50 weeks straight.
Want to see our athletes win more? Become less apathetic towards low government funding and corporate sponsorship by lobbying the piss out of them during the pre and post Olympic periods.
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Yup, i've touched on this already but if anyone feels the need to call out these athletes then they should at least show some ounce of care for the sports other then at the olympics. Funding isn't there so we can't expect huge medal results like china, the US and even austrailia are seeing.
People have lobbied in the past, personally i think the government just needs to try opening the purse strings for once in this area. Worst thing is that cbc pays 3 mil a day to broadcast the games, while our athletes get 40 mil a year between summer and winter athletes. You'd think if the government was willing to pay that to broadcast the games they'd be willing to pump a more respectable amount of money into supporting our athletes.
We are talking about 2-3 dollars per tax payer per year to make it respectable, hardly a huge hit.