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Originally Posted by Gander
When are you guys going to realize that 95% of the top athletes dont give a rat's ass about playing for their country when little or no money is involved? They only care about protecting their lucrative contracts and simply "show up" to these meaningless exhibitions like the Olympics so they dont look bad.
Its not just basketball either, its baseball and tennis as well.
Remember when Davis Cup actually mattered in tennis? The top guys for the US have been noticeably absent in these events, a la Jimmy Conors, Pete Sampras.
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Part of the reason when the US dropped it's amateur rule regarding the Olympics it lost a lot of it's luster for me.
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09-01-2006, 01:51 PM
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