I for one have zero issue with anyone from any country skating in the Olympics or world championships.
If, and only if, they are one of the top 30 skaters in the world.
Can’t put into words how much I despise sports quotas.
If 25 out of 30 in one sport are from one country, that’s all right by me.
I want to see only the best at the best and most prestigious competitions.
Don’t care about having as many countries represented as possible. I don’t root for countries. I want only the best and most elite at the Olympics. Don’t care about human interest stories as much as competition.
Or, since I don’t watch any other skating other than the ladies, do your quotas in the other disciplines and remove them from the ladies. Which also makes Liza’s Olympic dreams more of a reality so there is the biggest reason to get rid of them. Haha
In this case we will. It would be boring if we agreed on everything.I will return just to say, to use your language (it's a little stronger than what I would say), I can't put into words how much I despise the idea of the 25 "best" (whatever the heck that is) skaters, even if they are from one country, in Worlds. To me, that is the quota system that I dislike immensely and cannot support.
Don't care if I ever see the 25 top highest scorers at Worlds, nope, not me, this general sports fan is not interested. . That is *not* my definition of the most prestigious, the most competitive, the best of the best. My life experience has taught me otherwise.
Now I don't watch the ladies much but I know people who do, and who don't want to see the top 25 high scorers at Worlds, so on their behalf, I say no thank you.
But since we come from completely different philosophical and practical points of view, I think we will always be arguing for different things.
No surprise.
There is about 0 chance for that to happen here.
But who knows? If some rich european expatriate build an ice rink mainly for his fellow citizens but opens it to the public, with some "coaches", why not?
I think that there are more chances for that to happen in 2085 when the climate change will make snow fall here and get us interested in winter sports.
Why? Why is it a "shame" and why is it important for an ice rink to "appear" in some country? It's just a sport a country doesn't care about, and like it or not, overwhelmingly countries in the world have better things to do than making ice rinks "appear". I 10000000000000% hope the money in countries that actually need help is directed to things that actually matter for them - rather than towards the happiness of people on goldenskate forum who want to "support" skaters from those countries. If you want to hope for something, hope for that.What a shame. I hope there is some interest, sometime, somewhere, that ice rinks will magically appear.
Why? Why is it a "shame" and why is it important for an ice rink to appear in some country? It's just a sport a country doesn't care about, and like it or not, overwhelmingly countries in the world have better things to do than making ice rinks "appear". I 10000000000000% hope the money in countries that actually need help is directed to things that actually matter for them - rather than towards the happiness of people on goldenskate forum who "supported" skaters from those countries. If you want to hope for something, hope for that.
-Signed, person with relatives in a country that needs money to be spent, but not on ice rinks.
Look, it's great for Donovan and i root for him.What a shame. I hope there is some interest, sometime, somewhere, that ice rinks will magically appear.
This is the rink that Donovan trains at.
https://www.facebook.com/IceSportCenter
I do not know its history, but for me, it does not appear that a wealthy American or European constructed it. Of course, there are wealthy Mexicans.
Donovan's coach is Mexican; there are no "imported" coaches. This also inspired me to look up the average temperature in Guanajuato. Evidently it can get as low as 39 degrees at night in the winter, but almost never below freezing. And the average high in January is 69 degrees.
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So no natural ice there.
ETA: Donovan is from Jalisco state, 160 miles to the Southeast. Even warmer there with a daytime high of 77 degrees in January, the coldest month.
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Somewhere in central Africa@yume Which country do you come from?
Yes, one of the two respectable feds (with Morocco) that ever existed.Yes, I would be very surprised to see skating take root there.
(There is, however, skating in South Africa).