Do not move to Canada

Roger Sterling wrote:

Details, please?

outFerArip wrote:

they are about to F-over an Olympic marathoner

Still waiting for details... ?

Jimmy sez wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

we invented basketball not you, and the Indians invented lacrosse, and hockey has been played in the British Isles since prehistory.

I call it a tie, James Naismith invented basketball, he was Canadian born and schooled in Canada, though he later moved to Massachusetts and invented basketball.

As for the Brits playing Ice Hockey since prehistory...i guess that's why they're so many Brits in the NHL and they keep cleaning up at World Champs and Olympics...or maybe you're confused with Field Hockey.

Uhh field hockey IS hockey. Canadians just happened to be on ice when they played this already invented sport.

It's ok one day a team comprised entirely of Guelph athletes will take us all the way to 0 people making it out of the first round. It is what the AC admin (cough the Guelph coaching staff cough) want. It's the same as in basketball where somehow two spots are always reserved for players from Carleton University (even though there is more then enough NBA players to make it) who's coach just so happens to be the assistant coach of the men's team.

Fawn Dorr runs for Canada and shes a joke of an athlete.

Pretty sure it has to do with Reid. Blew up and Worlds and there is talk about him not being selected for the Olympics. Look at how Worlds went for Canada though. They took a man coming back from an injury who isn't so young anymore and can't recover like he did a decade ago. Took Rob who has been battling inconsistency for the last few years. Brandon, don't even know where to start with that kid. Injured for weeks leading up and since Worlds. They sucked at worlds. Bad selection process and Athletics Canada doesn't support their athletes. What country really does though?

Don't go to Canada, eh? I visited Glacier National Park last year, and going from the US side to Waterton was like going from a trailer park to Beverly Hills. I grew up in western NY and it was pretty much the same thing.

Don't agree with you wrote:

Agree with you wrote:

Anyone who can achieve the OG qualifying standard and place in the top three at a Trials meet should go to the Olympics.

What if you have a bad day at the Trials meet after earlier setting a national record. Should you still have a shot at going to the Olympics?

Agree with you wrote:In Canada though they have a convoluted qualification process with a 26 page set of floating criteria subject to change at anytime. They have issues.

I think you're a few years too late.

What parts of

http://athletics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2016-Olympic-Final-Selection-Critieria-JAN7Version_JM.pdf

present difficulty for you to understand?

The NTC reserves the right to amend this document at any time up to the Selection Date for changes imposed by parties external to the NTC or for changes that, in the opinion of the NTC would improve or enhance the selection process.

i.e. 'we can literally do whatever the F we want', just like when we told Wodak she wasn't good enough for carding money

Maybecod wrote:

Pretty sure it has to do with Reid. Blew up and Worlds and there is talk about him not being selected for the Olympics. Look at how Worlds went for Canada though. They took a man coming back from an injury who isn't so young anymore and can't recover like he did a decade ago. Took Rob who has been battling inconsistency for the last few years. Brandon, don't even know where to start with that kid. Injured for weeks leading up and since Worlds. They sucked at worlds. Bad selection process and Athletics Canada doesn't support their athletes. What country really does though?

No, the reference is to Krista Duchene, who has the Athletics Canada A+++ standard in the marathon, but currently is ineligible to go because she has to prove fitness and has failed to do so.

Reid is the guy that donated $10,000 to his club and then had people donate a bunch of money to his training camps, pretty much reimbursing himself. Sketchy. And was selected to some national relay team when he had no intention of racing the event to the best of his abilities. So he could chill with Japanese undergrads while resting for the Fukuoka marathon.

Rob is funny. Maybe someday he'll stop thinking that positive splitting races by a lot is cool and actually run to the best of his abilities. I always cheer for the guy and hope this will happen. Go Rob!