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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:20 am
I find this more of an issue than allowing professional athletes to compete for their country. To represent one's own country is an amazing feat and should make the athlete's heart swell with pride and joy in their homeland. Not knowing anything about that land except that they outbid another "homeland" for your services is more mercenary than anything. The olympic comittees for coutnries that do this are not without fault in this either. I would rather see a native-born, raised, proud, engaged athlete do their all for their nation, than an A+++ athlete with tenuous ties and no knowledge of the symbols and anthem of the land they claim to represent. They are ambassadors for the land they represent, they'd better at least know what they're representing.
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