There has been a lot of discussion since Athens about foreign swimmers training in the United States. Most of them attend U.S. Universities, receive athletic scholarships, and compete at NCAA's. Some notable examples include Duje Draganja (Cal), Fred Bousquet and Kirsty Coventry (Auburn), Markus Rogan (Stanford), and the South African sprinters (Arizona). Some train in the U.S., but don't compete for a university (Inge de Bruijn). All of these athletes benefit from U.S. coaching, from training with U.S. swimmers, and in some cases, from financial support provided by U.S. entities (athletic scholarships). They all turn around and then win medals for other countries.
A couple questions: 1) What do you think about this arrangement generally? 2) Is it of benefit or detriment to U.S. swimming to have these foreign athletes training and competing here? 3) Should we be giving athletic scholarships, which are a scarce resource in swimming, to foreign athletes who will represent their own countries internationally instead of U.S.-born swimmers who will represent us internationally?
I'm sure there are other issues, but these come directly to mind.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
Also google Alexander Tyler.
some_girl - You lost me on the genocide part. Views that were once popular are not seen in the same light today. Hind sight is always 20/20 and it's not for us to pass judgement. They obviously did something right as we are the only remaining super power. Swimmers from all over the world come here to train and we have been a swimming power house for quite some time. ( Have to somehow tie swimming in here. ) And how we treat our people in this country is substantially better than many countries even in today's terms. Some places in the world, women still do not have many rights and China is killing thousands of its people due to the waste from industrialization.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
Also google Alexander Tyler.
some_girl - You lost me on the genocide part. Views that were once popular are not seen in the same light today. Hind sight is always 20/20 and it's not for us to pass judgement. They obviously did something right as we are the only remaining super power. Swimmers from all over the world come here to train and we have been a swimming power house for quite some time. ( Have to somehow tie swimming in here. ) And how we treat our people in this country is substantially better than many countries even in today's terms. Some places in the world, women still do not have many rights and China is killing thousands of its people due to the waste from industrialization.
