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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=27272" target="_blank">Canadians to be paid for medal performances at Olympics</a> (click to view)

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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Hyack" target="_blank">Hyack</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-11-19 09:04:13
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[newfette]

I believe that amature athletes should be rewarded for winning at the olympics.

Professional athleats on the other hand should not. BUT i also believe that professional athleats shouldn't be at the olympics anyways...

[Zipperfish]

If they're paid, they're not really amateurs--they're professionals working on a commission only basis!

[CanadianLynx]

Athletes should not get paid.
The more medals the athletes win for the country the more money the gov't gives to the sports programs involved with the olympic programs

[Brenda]

Tell that to the US

[RUEZ]

lily lily:

Of course they should get paid - steroids don't come cheap, y'know.

I don't think that's allowed in Olympic competition.

[Freakinoldguy]

These are elite athletes who give up some of their most productive money earning years to represent their country. Alot of them have gone without for years living off friends and relatives so they can keep competing, while our governments have given them basically........ nada.

It's time they got something back in return. Personally I'd rather see them paid a living wage so they can live a decent life without always taking a backseat in life style and training to countries that are willing to support their amateur athletes.

In this country alot of people seem to be to quite willing to have the government pay for the less fortunate, including drug addicts, criminals and homeless people, "because they made a poor choice", yet people who made a choice to give up alot and represent their country are left to their own devices.

Hypocritical.

[Blue_Nose]

Why should tax money be used to promote one person out of 30 million to become the world's most elite javelin thrower? How is that serving the public in a constructive manner?

I've got no problem with elite athletics, but the government should not serve to promote the elite. Olympic medals in bobsledding aren't improving the general health of Canadians.

What Canadians need is more access to facilities that encourage children to live active lifestyles, not to sit on the couch watching other people smile on podiums.

$1:

"If you want me to go and compete with the world's best, then I've got to be able to train like the world's best," he said. "And I don't think I should have to live in poverty in order to accomplish my goals."

Well, gee, if I could just get the government to pay me to paddle around in a boat all day, why the hell am I sitting at this desk?!?

[TattoodGirl]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Why should tax money be used to promote one person out of 30 million to become the world's most elite javelin thrower? How is that serving the public in a constructive manner?

I've got no problem with elite athletics, but the government should not serve to promote the elite. Olympic medals in bobsledding aren't improving the general health of Canadians.

What Canadians need is more access to facilities that encourage children to live active lifestyles, not to sit on the couch watching other people smile on podiums.

$1:

"If you want me to go and compete with the world's best, then I've got to be able to train like the world's best," he said. "And I don't think I should have to live in poverty in order to accomplish my goals."

Well, gee, if I could just get the government to pay me to paddle around in a boat all day, why the hell am I sitting at this desk?!?

[AsianWildRose]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Why should tax money be used to promote one person out of 30 million to become the world's most elite javelin thrower? How is that serving the public in a constructive manner?

I've got no problem with elite athletics, but the government should not serve to promote the elite. Olympic medals in bobsledding aren't improving the general health of Canadians.

What Canadians need is more access to facilities that encourage children to live active lifestyles, not to sit on the couch watching other people smile on podiums.

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010. So just like any other business, we have to spend money to attract the elite.

All countries have different means to fund their Olympic teams through lotteries or charity.

[RUEZ]

AsianWildRose AsianWildRose:

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010.

Did you see the last winter olympics? I'm not sure if you're saying we are, but we were far from being a laughing stock. It was one of the best ones yet for us.

[Blue_Nose]

AsianWildRose AsianWildRose:

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010.

Well I'd be a lot more proud to hear that Canadians have reduced rates of obesity, for example, or has become a world leader in healthy lifestyles than to hear that so-n-so that I've never met in my life got some world record in some event I'll never participate in.

What really made me angry is the fuckhead kayaker that actually made the statement above.

[AsianWildRose]

RUEZ RUEZ:

AsianWildRose AsianWildRose:

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010.

Did you see the last winter olympics? I'm not sure if you're saying we are, but we were far from being a laughing stock. It was one of the best ones yet for us.

Yes, because we've started spending money since Salt Lake. Before that we were pretty bad.

[AsianWildRose]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

AsianWildRose AsianWildRose:

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010.

Well I'd be a lot more proud to hear that Canadians have reduced rates of obesity, for example, or has become a world leader in healthy lifestyles than to hear that so-n-so that I've never met in my life got some world record in some event I'll never participate in.

What really made me angry is the fuckhead kayaker that actually made the statement above.

Isn't Canada one of the leaders in healthy foods? Isn't everything DIET and LEAN and SKIM nowadays?

Also sport can help obesity. A kid can watch an athlete win a medal and want to be like him/her! Then they can enter sports programs and exercise. If Canada finished dead last all the time, no one would be active anymore.

[Freakinoldguy]

RUEZ RUEZ:

AsianWildRose AsianWildRose:

It may be true that it doesn't really help general health but there is such a thing as national pride.
I'd like my country to compete in competitions and not be the laughing stock of the world, especially when we're hosting in 2010.

Did you see the last winter olympics? I'm not sure if you're saying we are, but we were far from being a laughing stock. It was one of the best ones yet for us.

It was and we're only going to get more competetive given the fact that our athletes will be able to better compete on an even playing field with countries like the USA, Russia and Australia who stongly subsidize their athletes.

The money we will spend on our elite athletes is a pittance compared to what our governments waste each year.