Do not move to Canada

The situation is a mess right now, definitely need new leadership who are actually working towards what's best for all athletes.

Why you mad bro? You don't got the speed, they don't got the interest.

they are about to F-over an Olympic marathoner

Details, please?

outFerArip wrote:

they are about to F-over an Olympic marathoner

Lanni, Reid or Gillis?

Yeah, the fact that you can be top three in their country AND have the Olympic standard and they still may not send you to the Olympics is pretty disheartening.

Jamaica was like that.

I had teammates that were top three 800m runners in their country and had the Olympic standard in 1996 and Jamaica wouldn't send anyone in the 800 to the Olympics.

And those Olympics were in Atlanta. They were US based and could have driven there if they had to.

Why should national associations support third level athletes just because some old greedy people in the IOC want to make the Olympics bigger and bigger? More than 10k athletes is way too many.

If you have the std, you aren't "third level".

Furthermore, they should minimally be given the opportunity to pay their own way if the cheapskates won't send them.

They want medal contenders, not just representatives. The only people they are potentially effing over are those that show late improvement after the window closes.

"Furthermore, they should minimally be given the opportunity to pay their own way if the cheapskates won't send them."

^This.

But they don't, because "that's not how it works".

Sieg heil. Since leaving Canada, I have never looked back.

They have ambiguous and harder standards because they want to save money (less money spent on athletes=more money for AC administration). It's ludicrous how much money the people associated with AC (the non-athletes) make, and most (not all) of them do absolutely nothing!

How much money does Athletics Canada and Athletics Ontario get, and what are the salaries of the people holding down positions in these entities.

Who are the people making the rules for athletes selection?

Bishop is more than likely clean, but the athletes she competes against probably aren't.

With all the corruption, and payoffs for drug positives, etc are any of the standards realistic.

Bashing Bishop wrote:

They want medal contenders, not just representatives. The only people they are potentially effing over are those that show late improvement after the window closes.

Sometimes athletes become medal contenders after experience.

And some become contenders by opportunity.

Look at Manzano.

If he were Canadian, he wouldn't have been given given a spot on the 2008 Olympic team to gain experience.

He may bot even have gotten a spot on the 2012 team.

But the opportunities and experience he got with the US enabled him to get a medal in 2012.

StayTruetotheghetto wrote:

They have ambiguous and harder standards because they want to save money (less money spent on athletes=more money for AC administration). It's ludicrous how much money the people associated with AC (the non-athletes) make, and most (not all) of them do absolutely nothing!

Can you provide the financial reports that show what these non-athletes at AC make?

Part of the driver for tougher criteria (standards are still the same as the IAAF's and it is only for marks achieved in 2015 that some form of proof of fitness in 2016 is required) is that AC is compared to all the other Olympic sports receiving public funds based on percentage of the team that achieves medals/top 8/top 16.

Given it's the COC that pays the bulk of the costs for the Olympic trip, it's not like AC bigwigs get more money for themselves by limiting athlete qualifications.

Krista hit standard within the window now she gwan haf a bend over

fred wrote:

How much money does Athletics Canada and Athletics Ontario get, and what are the salaries of the people holding down positions in these entities.

Who are the people making the rules for athletes selection?

Bishop is more than likely clean, but the athletes she competes against probably aren't.

With all the corruption, and payoffs for drug positives, etc are any of the standards realistic.

Only USA & Australia (other than East Africa) send full teams to championships.....just look at recent World Half Marathon in Cardiff, Wales.

ootandaboot wrote:

Krista hit standard within the window now she gwan haf a bend over

She broke her leg in the middle of a race and still finished. She'll be good to go.

way to go, canucks! wrote:

Why should national associations support third level athletes just because some old greedy people in the IOC want to make the Olympics bigger and bigger? More than 10k athletes is way too many.

They don't have to support anybody, just have to allow qualified athletes to go to the Olympics on their own sponsor's dime. Unfortunately it's run by power hungry socialists, who hate people getting advantages using their own hard-earned money. They prefer sending fewer people they like using blessèd government money, and forcing the rest to stay home For the Greater Good.

Canada doesn't even support its own national sport. The vast majority of its hockey players have to move south of the border to play in the NHL.