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- Jun 21, 2003
I agree with Patrick that skaters should not be forced to compete if they don't want to.
What should happen in that case, where a country's top-rnaked skaters decline the invitation, is that that country's team should be replaced by another country whose top skaters do want to take part.
What would not be fair is for a country like Canada to qualify for the event on the strength of Chan, Virtue and Moir, Duhamel and Radford, etc., and then to send skaters that are worse than, say, Italy could field if they had the chance.
What should happen in that case, where a country's top-rnaked skaters decline the invitation, is that that country's team should be replaced by another country whose top skaters do want to take part.
What would not be fair is for a country like Canada to qualify for the event on the strength of Chan, Virtue and Moir, Duhamel and Radford, etc., and then to send skaters that are worse than, say, Italy could field if they had the chance.