Wayne Gretzky was a great hockey player, but if he showed up with his skates and expected to be the first line centre in the next Olympics, I don’t think telling him to take a hike would be unreasonable.
This player is forty years old. There are almost no top level footballers, especially non-goalkeepers, that can hack it at that age. Frankly, she looked about fifty, not forty, in the last match. It would have been nice if she had stepped aside and let someone younger, who can actually contribute, play instead. Christine Sinclair has been a tremendous servant, and one of our greatest athletes. Just a shame she stuck around too long.
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