on 24/7/01 4:56 AM, David Andersen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Who needs who?
If the athletes who earn money and competed in a new competition that paid
more than the Olympics or worlds arrived fully fledged as stars you would
have a point.
But who is going to nuture the athlete when he or she starts out? I'm
talking pre-college age for those of you who live in the world's greatest
polluter! Who runs the little leagues, the kids' competitions?
The IAAF and Federations do many things other than run the top competitions
for the top athletes. And if they don't make money from those top
competitions they can't pay to develop the sport, so the whole thing would
collapse and a
>successful professional
>track and field league that pays better than they can make now
would rapidly go out of business once the present stars had retired.
Randall Northam
