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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I understand medals take time and money - but why are we sending over a HUGE team that is largely full of people that have no chance.
If the athletes want more money - fine - we can re-allocate a lot of it simply by cutting the team down to a third of it's size. Less people get to go but at least they have a better chance.
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How do you know much it costs to send them over? Pretty sure the plane tickets and hotel costs are less then 5% of the cost. For 300 athletes, lets say $3000 is spent on sending them there (flight, accomidation) we're looking at $900,000. Putting more money into the program means facilities, coaching, equipment and so on that goes towards not only developing these athletes, but bringing in young people into the program. Like the fat kid on the x-box thinking he's the x-men.
Sending only kayaking and wrestling competitors is the wrong message. Your idea of only spending on a few sports won't nessasarly mean not sending athletes that arn't favourites, but cutting costs out of things facilities and promotion of sports like white water rafting and so on. I don't know about you, but between having the option of having a whole wide range of facilities and equipment for many different sports and sending and showing the world Canada can compete in almost any sport out there - or having a few more medals, but showing we can only do a few sports, well thats a pretty clear option to me.