This is a pathetic attempt to control US swimmer's incomes.
What the hell is behind this inane decision?
Are we trying to kill off the sport slowly?
This decision is ridiculous !
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/.../59325
No one complains when USOC signs a multi billion dollar contract with NBC but gets their panties in a wad about a $1200+ cap deal. Yeah, that's big thinking and GREAT FOR THE SPORT. Here's the alternative, get rid of the USOC ban and then the athletes can forego the money and earn it on their own, further taking away from valuable training time.
The strangle hold on sports these days certainly isn't money, that pretty much ended about a decade ago when Olympic athletes no longer needed amateur status.
Damn it gets tiring hearing of all the ways swimming is dying when it is the strongest it's ever been. But, I did buy some Kleenex stock the other day in anticipation of all the man-cryin' that goes on in this forum. If Hansen loses to Kitajima tjburk might go into a coma for 4 more years. And, if the women outperform the men, the Smiths will be able to extend their apoplectic fits about Title IX for another half century.
No one complains when USOC signs a multi billion dollar contract with NBC but gets their panties in a wad about a $1200+ cap deal. Yeah, that's big thinking and GREAT FOR THE SPORT. Here's the alternative, get rid of the USOC ban and then the athletes can forego the money and earn it on their own, further taking away from valuable training time.
The strangle hold on sports these days certainly isn't money, that pretty much ended about a decade ago when Olympic athletes no longer needed amateur status.
Damn it gets tiring hearing of all the ways swimming is dying when it is the strongest it's ever been. But, I did buy some Kleenex stock the other day in anticipation of all the man-cryin' that goes on in this forum. If Hansen loses to Kitajima tjburk might go into a coma for 4 more years. And, if the women outperform the men, the Smiths will be able to extend their apoplectic fits about Title IX for another half century.
