02-26-2010, 01:36 AM | #1 |
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how much would we effect the Olympics if we banned competitors from training in the USA/attending USA colleges seems like a lot of competitors use our resources. Kinda like the Chinese do in keeping their training in house only. Olympics don't mean much here and I know this will never happen, but just think of it as hypothetical if we went after it hard.
Include our pro leagues as this. Foreign competitors would be banned from them. |
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02-26-2010, 09:56 AM | #3 |
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First of all, the NHL isn't YOUR league and many countries have their own leagues at stuff. Maybe not the same quality but neither would yours be if you didn't "allow" international flavour in there.
It's a business. They're paying for it. Lots of athletes train in Canada regardless of what country they're competing in. They're paying for that privelege. |
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Obviously we would lose a lot of athletes, but overall the in nation quality would rise to fill the void left and the international world wouldn't have access to our high dollar training facilities. Team sports make up very little of the medals, where it would really change some things is the individual sports. Tons of athletes train in our college system. If we focused on medals much more so than we do now, we could rise to meet the chinese.
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The other pro sports it doesn't matter because we don't have a huge influx of foreign born athletes in those sports, although it seems the NBA has been getting a lot of European players lately. |
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Okay well hypothetically, I think it wouldn't make a lick of difference to the US athletes (unless they were only allowed to train in house), and although there might be *some* effect on other nations....I think it'd be very minimal. Coaches would travel to train. |
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Basically, I think Chinese will own both olympics before long. They are doing what Russians did when they were communist.
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No shit. You have 10X the amount of people we do, and we make up over 50% of it! (was over 70% in the '70s though, were slipping)
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You do alright in individual medals though no? |
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