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Or Olympic champions Tenley Albright, Carol Heiss. Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski and Sarah Hughes, none of whom depended on getting money from the government.
Well, that was then, this is now. (although Davis and White won something just a few years ago). Figure skating ran out of steam in the U.S. somewhere around the beginning of the twenty-first century. Why? Manitou put it most eloquently above: it just did. Nothing to do do with government money -- we never had any to begin with. It is what it is. Go Nathan!
But how many more Olympic champions would there be if others with real talent could get help to continue? How is it fair to those talented children and young adults that their sporting career is determined by their parents' economic status?