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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 183222" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Well, I'm glad that you all are sharing your stories with me. There was a time that I believed that the Olympics were about free competition in a free world. I just can't see it any more. Maybe it was when they started letting pro ball players play basketball "just once" that I started to get a bit jaded to it. No one who makes 20 million dollars a year to play their sport should be competing in what is supposed to be an amateur athletic competition. It put things in a different perspective, I think.</p><p></p><p>And, yes, I know that the Russians did that with their hockey teams for years, but that doesn't make it the right thing for us to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 183222, member: 99"] Well, I'm glad that you all are sharing your stories with me. There was a time that I believed that the Olympics were about free competition in a free world. I just can't see it any more. Maybe it was when they started letting pro ball players play basketball "just once" that I started to get a bit jaded to it. No one who makes 20 million dollars a year to play their sport should be competing in what is supposed to be an amateur athletic competition. It put things in a different perspective, I think. And, yes, I know that the Russians did that with their hockey teams for years, but that doesn't make it the right thing for us to do. [/QUOTE]
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