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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
There is much more competive balance for Hockey in the Olympics amongst Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech, and Slovakia.
Since 1998 when the NHL entered The Gold has been won by 4 Countries
Czech, Sweden and Canada x2.
and the games are hardly complete blowouts unlike this ridiculous lobsided USA NBA built teams.
Mens Olympic Basketball has become a sham since they allowed the NBA to participate. This has become the USA dream team vs themselves.
The USA has won 13 out of the 16 Olympics Basketball has been in since 1936. Since the IOC allowed pro NBA BS the USA have won the Gold all but 1 Olympics when Argentina shocked. Because the USA team was partying the night before in Athens nightclubs, its well documented.
Several players have since said they thought Argentina would be just another cakewalk.
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If you read my post, you'd see I said that Hockey is much more balanced worldwide.
The problem is you can't just not allow pros in one sport but allow them in others if they have an agreement in place. Its not the US' fault that other countries can't produce basketball players like they can.
Anyway, I'm not going to argue with you. You seem to be of the opinion that its fair to exclude pro basketball players but not hockey players, which isn't fair at all IMO. If the NBA has an agreement with the Olympics, they should be allowed to play.
As mentioned earlier, should they start excluding individual atheletes that are too good for their competition? If your answer is no, you can't say any different for the US basketball team.