Athletes, The Olympic’s #1 Natural Resource. Conserve It Wisely!!
While China has 1,000 sports training centers with almost 1,000,000 athletes currently enrolled, the US has 3 training centers with approx 2,500 athletes. You look at those numbers and say to yourself that there is definitely going to be a changing of the guard in elite Olympic sports sooner or later. The question throughout the international sports community, is whether or not the Chinese are taking over where the East Germans left off with their systematic doping programs supported by the government and implemented by national team coaches on its unsuspecting athletes. The US is not immune from doping, far from it. Marion Jones is proof of that.
But in the US it tends to be a rogue athlete with dillussions of success and finacial gain. In countries such as China, the athletes are usually not a party to it and are used as a pawn in this game of global sports domination. For an emerging country like China, they have so many financial opportunities and advantages in manufacturering, in raw materials, in labor costs. But today, the game is to show the world that China is also a dominant producer of a truly unique and invaluable natural resource to the psyche of any country, Championship athletes in this case via Olympic Gold Medalist!
China is almost farming these athletes. A young Chinese swimmer 2 weeks ago just broke a world record in a non Olympic contested event, the 50m Backstroke owned by American Leila Vaziri. Breaking a world record is still a big deal, but to break it when no group of swim media could even tell you who this chinese athlete is, the swimmer wasnt even ranking in the top 50 in the world, makes all of those in the Olympic world worried about their worst fear, that China’s oven clock for producing artifically doped athletes, just rang done!
People will read this and say that i am anti Chinese. I am a racist because this is another country or culture. My response it, that is non sense! I am all for moments that are truly unique in sports. Misty Hyman’s drubbing of Madame Butterfly Susie O’Neill at the 2000 Sydney Games comes to my mind as a act that no one could have been predicted. But by contrast, Misty was one of the best in American history, won numerous American titles. She had a tremendous NCAA’s that year. So as much as it was a surprise about her beating Susie, the results were not questioned because of the trajectory of her ascent.
My point here is the the Olympics top resource is and will always be its athletes. Its not the sponsors, the fans or the records. Like all natural resources, use it wisely or it too will disappear!
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