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Opinion
A confluence of events over the Canada Day long weekend got me thinking about how we as Canadians so dramatically undervalue the contributions our amateur athletes make to this country, while simultaneously just as dramatically overvalue the contributions of our professional athletes.
Let’s take a look at those amateur athletes first, for a change.
The folks over at Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba craftily took advantage of the Canada Day weekend to send out a press release detailing how much (little) we as taxpayers supported our amateur athletes in this Olympic year.