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Originally Posted by Teriyaki
Step back a bit and I think we've all been sold this fairytale idea that you need to "represent" something or, specifically a country to have meaning in your personal achievement.
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That's how they announce people at the Olympics. Then later they play the national anthem of the winner. Countries pay a bunch of money for people to train and travel just to represent them at the Olympics. Remove the rah rah national pride crap from the Olympics and nobody would care about most of these sports, as is evident by how most of them have little to no coverage the rest of the time.
If you want to say they're purely personal achievements then pull all the national funding from every Olympians training program and see how things go for them.
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Originally Posted by Teriyaki
It's a complex and often severely unfair system in the world of professional sports.
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Aren't the people at the Olympics amateurs? This is specifically not supposed to be professional sports.