The Irrelevant Olympic Team Funding
This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. Some points may be informative. Please provide your feedback.
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Hello. Well, Canada has now completed 6 days without any Olympic medals. And we've already heard the cries for more funding. "If only we had more money", the athletes and organizers are saying. It's a familiar cry that gets loudest in an Olympic year.
Well, I'm sorry to say funding is irrelevant.
Why? Because we obviously must have lots of money to send 331 athletes to Beijing, up from the 265 sent to Athens. That should in theory result in a 24.9% medal increase. Since we have zero, I'd say it hasn't happened yet.
The answer is to bring in administrators who know what they're doing, like Alex Baumann was supposed to be for swimming. The jury's out on whether they're better since the medal counts for Beijing and Athens are the same.
Throwing good money after bad is irrelevant. Fix the system.
Regards,
Irrelevant
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.
Hello. Well, Canada has now completed 6 days without any Olympic medals. And we've already heard the cries for more funding. "If only we had more money", the athletes and organizers are saying. It's a familiar cry that gets loudest in an Olympic year.
Well, I'm sorry to say funding is irrelevant.
Why? Because we obviously must have lots of money to send 331 athletes to Beijing, up from the 265 sent to Athens. That should in theory result in a 24.9% medal increase. Since we have zero, I'd say it hasn't happened yet.
The answer is to bring in administrators who know what they're doing, like Alex Baumann was supposed to be for swimming. The jury's out on whether they're better since the medal counts for Beijing and Athens are the same.
Throwing good money after bad is irrelevant. Fix the system.
Regards,
Irrelevant
posted by Irrelevant at 5:45 AM
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