#51, With A Bullet

70 Replies to “#51, With A Bullet”

1. Suck it up and work harder.
   Might be an idea to have a few more Canadian babies, eh!

2. We have finally reached socialist Utopia. We are all the same. Losers all but still the champs of statism & multiculturalism. I bet we fit in perfect with the Chinese PC language police?
   Losing as the HRC’s would say is winning because all tried but did there best . No one excelled to hurt the feelings of the other athletes.
   The real story is how this Country that used to produce wonderful achievers with little money but lots of encouragement has died. Have we lost our will as well as our guts?

3. We’re awesome in hockey and icerocks, and sometimes baseball, but not track&field. i bet steffie&boob might win a metalion in synchro ballhay.

4. A few years ago an Equestrian competitor I know went to the olympics.
   When the horses arrived at their desitination they would not be released until the bill for transportation (or quarantine or whatever-can’t remember)was paid. This person’s father(who I also know and happens to be wealthy) PERSONALLY paid the bill for ALL the teams horses to be released.
   BUT YOU CAN BET YOUR SWEET ASS ALL THE EQUESTRIAN OFFCIALS HAD ALL THIER EXPENSES PAID BY THE COC.
   And what about the athlete at the last olympics who couldn’t afford to take their trainer. The trainer would watch the event on TV and then phone the athlete to confer with he/she.
   Dissgraceful!
   My hope is the we don’t win a SINGLE medal (with appoligies to the fellow on here whose daughter is on the Womens Soccer team).Perhaps then the government will do something, if only out of shame.
   But we were promised 15 medals, were we not?
   Horny toad

5. How ’bout we sell the CBC. That’ll free up a whole shit load of cash for amateur athletics.

6. …and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK
   ‘Cause, y’know, it’s either a world-wide popular vote or shout-down contest that decides how we live in the west.
   This quote is very telling.

7. Craig hit on a valid point about being in the shadow of the greatest olympic nation. This is a big factor when it comes to qualifying.
   In order for a Canadian boxer to qualify, he must place in the medal round of at least one designated tournament. The Americans must do the same, so at most of these tournaments there are several of the best American boxers trying to qualify. In many cases the American boxer has pretty well secured the olympic gold medal by the time he’s made the American team. In the process he and the other Americans have pretty well dashed the hopes of any Canadian qualifying.
   In recent memory, the only Canadian boxers that made it to the games have been at least number 3 in the world before getting there. That’s a much higher standard than boxers from most countries have to meet.
   I can tell you another thing about Adam Trupish. It has to be a huge psychological kick to be all alone, with a totally incompetent support team, and dressed up like a clown.

8. why Canada are not getting or hardly getting any
   number in athletic score in internationla competition
   1) Canadian are lazy too much coffe break
   2) no dicipline or good school with smart brain can come up
   3) no funding in correct direction
   4) not hiring good coach to help them
   5) this is proces from childhood to young age
   you can get goos sportmen or woman withour environemtn be ready
   6) wht young doing going to bar and coffee while in most country lik US they go doing excersie
   7) this become too uglyif Canada choose for put olympic because in this country take another 6 years can accpe to host
   8) good sport teacher
   9) community centere for sport is full of druge and all gange boys not good place for mentaly and phsycially made the star yet
   10) if some group are smart need the group who find those star and put them or join them and govmernt need to fund those smart body and girlst to get deloep to higerr level with good caoch to become reall good madal athletic person
   11) raptor is sting for me hiring americna to fight amerian and at the end they hold and hug each other to not win the Canda become up yet
   this is good to hire out of canada not for olympic though
   12) enviorent, mentaly health and body and parents funding coaching cut the laziness and discipline and concentration in this job be sriud plust after you becom winner then WHAT not future for those winner of olypim too they must get more directed before on thetime of high and after they got he medal to devlope good sport in Canada
   in all kind of sport
   rogers center is exist but no sportsmen to paly it isntead they bring musican to sing the song
   plus if some one need to put all time for becoem good sprot men or woman hwo those time should get suported
   and how to open the passion mind for love of sport and open some nationalisim to that
   we have not nationalism here we are mutliculturims
   in hard job and hard cours in university you will see the list mostly minority take engineering and hard sport like soccer but in easy course like Enlgish or busienss course you will see too many coffee break Canadian origian take those course to say I have degree not for real know those course or spend time for it.

9. Rusia and Gorgia also play game of olympic who has the winner at end of that gaem
   this remind me god father that young son of god father wait after two grups shake hand with father he identify them then he revenge and he kiled them all
   now rusis give all seperation and all freedom then now they are revengeing of who was behind this game and bulying gma of russia
   do not forget russia bullying cost countries
   lost so much money and too muchn nuclear wars
   equipment left for sell
   then russian never learn what is important to pay or spend instead of Russia spend money
   for nuclear they could spend it for feed their coutnreis not get seperated
   now they are seprted war is too late
   plust I do not understand why russie must get
   seprated for me this stupied
   Gorgia and Azerbaigan all was part of Russia
   there was not reasonfor seperation to me
   they could live togeher in peace and feed insid to each otehr I dnot belive Gorgia speartion was benfit real to those peopel and to Russie they arelook like each otehr they talk like each otehr they have the same culture
   they only play for piece of land to me and power and money nothing else!!
   this seperation made russia weak and beenfit USA
   Russioa also find to me are two grup one hard workign smart people and one grup are bully and no heart people inj power they are very smart and they are very polite and
   Never try to use F or B word when you talk to Russian they really get angry
   some are racist too but culture of Russina look to me very kind and nice talking hard working smrt but not stand with rules and like power and money and theyare poor mentally
   they are not use money to enjoy but use mone to spend in useless war as we can see
   the Russion who become so many medals in sport
   they should smar enough to not fight in any war
   Russia are lack good leader unfortuanly
   teh method of talk to Russian if you talk nicelythey listne to you more to order or talk to them by bad language they are jelouse too
   hard working in computre

10. I’m American, so of course I like to see U.S. atheletes win as much as possible. But…
    You guys have great hockey, and Ian Miller and Big Ben rocked the equestrian world back in their day.
    It’s sad that you don’t win more (besides USA of course) — I could cheer for Canadians a whole lot more easily than for some countries and take a defeat from you a lot better as well.

11. 2) no dicipline or good school with smart brain can come up
    Sorry to correct your words in public “haye”, but the above should read,
    “no dicipline or good school with which smart brain can come.”
    Otherwise, graet post as usual!

12. The US and many other countries know that what the Olympics really do is foster national pride and patriotism, etc. It is a nation building activity. That is why they invest in it so heavily – it is creating a glue and enhancing a national culture.
    They also tend to build accountability and benchmarks into funding (e.g. we’ll give you this much but we expect 2 medals in this event, etc.). This means they have to produce – or they are gone.
    If we are going to fund athletes then we better make sure they are producing. We are not doing that right now.

13. Louise said:
    How ’bout we sell the CBC. That’ll free up a whole shit load of cash for amateur athletics.
    That’s the best idea I’ve heard in a long time.

14. Doug wrote, “And people say conservatives are the ones wholove [sic] this country.”
    Hey, Doug, at least we don’t love it for the right reasons.

15. If we are going to fund athletes then we better make sure they are producing. We are not doing that right now.
    Posted by: cconn at August 14, 2008 6:54 AM
    The athletes aren’t the problem. Athletes are raw material. Almost every healthy kid you see is a potential world class athlete in some sport or another.
    Amateur sport associations are the problem. I know because I’m a member of one that isn’t doing a very good job. The people who run these organizations answer only to themselves. There is very little oversight of anything, including finances. Since they are non-profit, they are not audited with any great scrutiny. They don’t fall under the same jurisdiction as corporations.
    What I’d like to see is a separate board, or commision, (made up of volunteers if possible) with members from business, sport, and government. If they picked one association per month, and demanded a full business plan, they could have this mess cleaned up in 4 years.

16. Don’t blame the athletes. Don’t blame funding. Don’t blame our medicocre persona….Blame Mike Harris.

17. Its not the funding nor the size of our population (smaller and poorer countries are kicking out butts).
    Its the decades long process of teaching young Canadians that competition and winning are bad (ie American). We’re removing all forms of competitive sports from the school and teaching kids that we should all just get along – don’t keep score, don’t beat your opponent that would make them feel bad.
    Dennis Miller once complained about the removal of dodgeball from school sports. To paraphrase him, he said “What are we teaching our kids? Life is one dodgeball shot in the groin after another – kids need to learn this”.
    In my neighbourhood the local school recently removed their baseball field and soccer pitch and replaced them with pseudo-inner city forests so kids could learn about nature instead of getting exercise and learning the benefits of some good natured competition.
    Losing isn’t the end of the world – its a valuable learning experience and makes us stronger. But there’s nothing wrong with teaching kids that winning is a good thing too. Encouraging your children to TRY to be number one is sadly missing these days.
    I’ve heard too many Canadian Athletes saying “I’m here to give it my best even though I know I won’t win”. One CBC commentator at the pool said “… he doesn’t want to talk about winning a medal, that’s not on his mind right now” … um why not?

18. Can we keep a little perspective here, people? Canadians truly worth cheering on — our brave soldiers — are winning where it counts: in Afghanistan.

19. The reason we aren’t doing that well is we don’t have the RCMP to protect us by tasering the competition.

20. dp,
    I hear ya. I think I agree with your solution as well.
    john brown,
    I hear ya too. I happened to see some of the golf player interviews (the scorecard interviews) after the PGA championship last week. The interview with Harringtion (the winner) was really interesting. He was asked questions about Garcia (the runner up) and how he had never won a major and wasn’t it time for him to win. Harrington answered,(paraphrased) “as a person I would like to see him win, and as a fellow professional golfer I am sad to see him lose, but as a competitor, I have no time for this sentimentality stuff, I am there to win, and I am going to do everything in my power to win”. I thought this summed up the attitude that is needed – and is not being taught – to our athletes.