[Stardust]

The Olympics are supposed to be Country vs. Country

And yes, playing better competition will make you better... it only makes sense. However, if your "home" country doesn't have the competition, the athletes and the training facilities that the U.S.A. has...... then IMO, that doesn't give anybody the right to come over to our country and train only to compete against us in the future.


For example....
That would be like NKU training all year in the Joe Craft Center or Rupp Arena..... practicing the entire season with the UK players and coaches.... then playing against them in the NCAA championship game.

C'mon Pulp, so you are going to say you have no problem with the youth sports taking advantage of this, but you are going to make this about Professionally Paid Athletes as a problem????? I can't in anyway buyinto agreeing with you on this one! We are talking about PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES. These athletes are not just Training with Americans on American Ski, Skate, Hockey, Shooting, Curling, etc. teams, they are competing on the same teams all for MONEY!!!!!!

Maybe if we were talking about pure amateur competition, then you could possibly have an argument, but not when we are talking about pure professionals! Do you have a problem that our shooting team lives in Russia?

As for making the Olympics about just Amateurs, No, I have no interest in seeing that, I want to see the BEST athletes in the world compete against each other.