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.
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Excuse me. Since when did a discussion of COUNTRIES without a tradition of world class swimming hiring non-native swimmers to represent their COUNTRY internationally, morph into yet another discussion of U.S. UNIVERSITIES giving scholarships to swimmers who would continue to represent their native countries internationally?
Two separate questions. We've chewed over the latter one quite a bit, but if you want to reignite that issue, go back to that discussion thread please. Continuing on in this thread merely confuses who said what about whom, and leads exhuberent slamming over comments no one really understands.
Yes, yes, I know that all you folks who thought you were good enough to go to college for free because you were such awesome swimmers (here's a news flash: there are about 100 of you for every scholarship that was available at the time) were all very traumatized by one Bolivian who swam for a Conference rival, possibly on scholarship. However, please try to direct your angst to a discussion thread where the participants actually, how do I put this?...care.
Excuse me. Since when did a discussion of COUNTRIES without a tradition of world class swimming hiring non-native swimmers to represent their COUNTRY internationally, morph into yet another discussion of U.S. UNIVERSITIES giving scholarships to swimmers who would continue to represent their native countries internationally?
Two separate questions. We've chewed over the latter one quite a bit, but if you want to reignite that issue, go back to that discussion thread please. Continuing on in this thread merely confuses who said what about whom, and leads exhuberent slamming over comments no one really understands.
Yes, yes, I know that all you folks who thought you were good enough to go to college for free because you were such awesome swimmers (here's a news flash: there are about 100 of you for every scholarship that was available at the time) were all very traumatized by one Bolivian who swam for a Conference rival, possibly on scholarship. However, please try to direct your angst to a discussion thread where the participants actually, how do I put this?...care.
