Given all the debate in the other thread about Qatar "buying" up some of the top talent in swimming, my question is how many people feel the USA should do the same?
Hoogie & Thorpe for our 800 free relay?
Schoeman & Hoogie for our 400 free?
How about on the W's side, a couple of th Aussies maybe?
Hi Paul:
Who is going to come up with the cash? The Government, Sponsors, USA Swimming, Clubs? How will this effect the development of the National team? How would people like Michael and Amanda feel about this bought guaranteed talent as opposted to them hustling sponsors to get funding?
If look at Qater they don't have these problems because they don't have any developed swimmers or teams on the world class level. They do have major riches and they can provide the funds to develop swimmers into world class champions. They want to take the short cut and get others and possibly in the future they can develop some of their own from this experience.
They have this facility over in Qater that's named after the Sheik Hamad whose family has ruled the country since 1995. I have read that the Hamad International complex makes places like IUPUI, Rose Bowl, and old Mission Bay look dinky and small by comparison. They have these facilities and have no world class swimmers to train in them. Plus they have so much cash they don't know what to do with it.
I don't see the same set of circumstances over here with our economy and the war going on right now. Plus I don't know what swimming would be like if the developed nations in the sport would start doing this.
Here is a link to the nation of Qater.
www.qatarembassy.net/clubs.asp
www.explore-qatar.com/sports.html
Hi Paul:
Who is going to come up with the cash? The Government, Sponsors, USA Swimming, Clubs? How will this effect the development of the National team? How would people like Michael and Amanda feel about this bought guaranteed talent as opposted to them hustling sponsors to get funding?
If look at Qater they don't have these problems because they don't have any developed swimmers or teams on the world class level. They do have major riches and they can provide the funds to develop swimmers into world class champions. They want to take the short cut and get others and possibly in the future they can develop some of their own from this experience.
They have this facility over in Qater that's named after the Sheik Hamad whose family has ruled the country since 1995. I have read that the Hamad International complex makes places like IUPUI, Rose Bowl, and old Mission Bay look dinky and small by comparison. They have these facilities and have no world class swimmers to train in them. Plus they have so much cash they don't know what to do with it.
I don't see the same set of circumstances over here with our economy and the war going on right now. Plus I don't know what swimming would be like if the developed nations in the sport would start doing this.
Here is a link to the nation of Qater.
www.qatarembassy.net/clubs.asp
www.explore-qatar.com/sports.html
