A canuck lister who lives over there says that it is front page news. If the US had a similar selection system, it would be like KK being left off the team and that story being the lead story on the network news. Can you imagine?
EamonnC wrote: > The runner expected to be among Paula Radcliffe's biggest rivals for the > marathon gold medal at the Olympic Games has been left out of the > Japanese team for Athens. > > In a decision which shocked even the country's prime minister, the > selectors omitted Naoko Takahashi, who won the marathon at the last > Olympics in Sydney.