How many guys from other countries does it take to win a National Championship?
Good thing they all attended classes on campus the entire year..... :-)
Makes everyone feel proud to see the American Record holder on the 4th place podium.
The flip side of this type of situation is what about the Serbian kid who can't come and live/train in this country and does his best given the limited resources he has...and is the 3rd fastest flyer...Cavic goes to the Olympics and this kid stays home. For every athlete who has grown up in this country with dual citizenship...was trained with US resources...and then figures out they can't make the US team so they go down the path of least resistence...a kid living in that other country gets displaced.
That is terrible. I say that if you were born here, man up like Grevers, and swim the US trials. Let some home grown Serbrian or Bulgarian swimmer go to the Olympics instead of carpetbagging your way to the Olympics.
The flip side of this type of situation is what about the Serbian kid who can't come and live/train in this country and does his best given the limited resources he has...and is the 3rd fastest flyer...Cavic goes to the Olympics and this kid stays home. For every athlete who has grown up in this country with dual citizenship...was trained with US resources...and then figures out they can't make the US team so they go down the path of least resistence...a kid living in that other country gets displaced.
That is terrible. I say that if you were born here, man up like Grevers, and swim the US trials. Let some home grown Serbrian or Bulgarian swimmer go to the Olympics instead of carpetbagging your way to the Olympics.
