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Originally Posted by Schmidtyboosh

For those who think that all our funding goes to hockey and curling...WAKE UP!!! Have you seen fees for kids to play hockey? And it is all paid by parents and TEAM fundraising, not government funds. Hockey coaches in Canada up to the Junior A Level (and not all Junior A teams may I add) are not paid at all, they are volunteers.

OTP paid nothing to the Mens hockey team, and probably nothing to the curling teams cause they are all professional. I'm also sure that Hockey Canada takes a majority of the financial responsibility for the womens team.

So where did all the OTP money go? That's right all these other sports that IMO, we have choked at so far.

examples
Hollingsworth
Wortherspooin
the Hamil brothers
Both Alpine teams
Chan
Morrison
and who else am I missing?

Most Canadian athletes have no swagger, and they have that happy to just compete attitude. It doesn't matter how much money you pump into programs if the athletes don't have the win at all costs attitude, prime example Shawn White. That guy already have the gold won, could have just went right down the middle of the pipe to the end, but no. He goes and throws the sickest ride anyone has ever seen for fun, and to wow the crowd.

Jen Hial was clearly upset that the LOST the gold. She didn't win the silver, and she will tell you that!

Thats the attitude Canadian athletes need.

Umm....

http://www.ownthepodium2010.com/Fund...er_sports.aspx