As seen on Swiminfo today.......so much for citizenship eh?! And we complain about masters "superteams"!
Draganja Changing Allegiances to Qatar
ZAGREB, Croatia, December 7. WHILE South Africa’s Roland Schoeman has spurned an offer to switch his allegiance to Qatar, the same cannot be said for Croatian Duje Draganja. The sprint sensation, a 24-year-old, recently accepted a lucrative offer to swim for the Middle Eastern nation, which has been chasing high-profile athletes by offering significant sums of money.
Before accepting the offer from Qatar, which is believed to be at least $1 million, Draganja gave Croatian swimming officials the opportunity to keep him swimming under his homeland’s flag. Ultimately, though, the Arab nation won out and Draganja is expected to race for Qatar at next year’s World Short Course Championships in Shanghai, China.
Maybe we should abolish all college spoting teams as well? Compete as individuals in all of the sports......everyone can actually just take classes over the internet.....we've all seen the damage caused by all that competition!
But if we go that far......probably need to disband high school athletics as well.....don't want to create any grudges there either, oh wait we've already stopped awarding places and grades in many of our schools so people won't feel "left out" and suffer hurt feelings.
Come to think of it....maybe we should eliminate corporations, hate to see competition there heating up!
Come on.....its the Olympics......having pride in your nationality is a good thing, but now you can switch countries and not ven have to become a citizen!
Once again we see this incredibl esporting event going further and further down the path of professionals (no I;m not blind, its been that way for years).......
Maybe we should abolish all college spoting teams as well? Compete as individuals in all of the sports......everyone can actually just take classes over the internet.....we've all seen the damage caused by all that competition!
But if we go that far......probably need to disband high school athletics as well.....don't want to create any grudges there either, oh wait we've already stopped awarding places and grades in many of our schools so people won't feel "left out" and suffer hurt feelings.
Come to think of it....maybe we should eliminate corporations, hate to see competition there heating up!
Come on.....its the Olympics......having pride in your nationality is a good thing, but now you can switch countries and not ven have to become a citizen!
Once again we see this incredibl esporting event going further and further down the path of professionals (no I;m not blind, its been that way for years).......
