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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 2475347, member: 730"] Why should the players be limited to their pro teams? Let players form their own teams without the limitation of national borders. Sure, there would be a predominance of US players on the teams but IMO that's the way it should be, a showcase for the best athletes in the world. Instead, what we have a showcase of the best athletes in each country. Hell, why shouldn't Kenyans dominate long distance running. If the best 6 or 10 marathon runners are Kenyans they should all get a shot at medals. The Olympics didn't emphasis are even include team sports. I'm not an expert in the history. But the best athletes should be in the Olympics, and if they all live in Mongolia then let them all compete. Wouldn't Olympic basketball be more exciting with the 150 best players in the world involved instead of it being a series of blowouts because 70-80 of the best players are excluded just because they happen to live in the same country? Like I said above, the Olympics has replaced it's original purpose, a celebration of the best athletes , and turned it into a orgy of nationalistic loyalties. That might disappear if the starters of a gold medal winning women's basketball team was composed of three US players, a Russian and a Spaniard. I mean, no anthem? And what would would be the chant? :rolleyes: What would the T shirts have on them? [/QUOTE]