"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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I'll meet you halfway. Yours is an ignorant opinion.

I say he had a duty to, you say he didn't. I'd have thought you to be a
little better on the adjective choice than that.
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There is no "team". He earned the right to skate in the Olympics
on his own, by himself, from a training site in Calgary. He is
from Chicago, a citizen of the US, so he skates as an American
but he isn't on the American "team" because in his sport there
is no "team".

Everyone at the so called Olympics are on the *Team* of one country or
another. How he trained is of no matter to the issue at hand. Regardless of
how he trained, once he qualified, he was part of the *Team*. If he had
beaten everyone in whatever passes for the speed skating qualifiing event
and was left off the *team* on the basis of whatever their disagreemnet is,
then it would be a different story. And it would be a greater wrong than
what I consider a selfish action on his part. At least I assumed he
qualified somehow vis a vis that lady figure skater who ended up physically
unable to compete anyway.

Regardless he earned his medal. He's got his 15 minutes of fame. And if it
had not been for the *Olympics* people like me would never have heard of
him.