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[QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 2281114, member: 6118"]
In the OLYMPIC games--USA got smart and stopped using College Amateurs vs Russian Professionals.
As long as USA uses real HS/College kids vs Russian Pros--the win/loss record shall remain as it is.
I am against changing the American system for HS/College kids.  We already have too  many pro teams --the WNBA proves the point, their crowds are thin.  
What needs to be done, at the international level, is to dictate that a level playing field must exist and all those competing in the U23 and under must not have Pro experience or full time jobs.
It was once so--.  OR the USA must build a training program that trains Pro level players and maintains teams of specific age(s) from 10 years old until they age out of the program.
Easy to do in closed societies--much harder to do in the USA--parents like kids to be kids.

The Canada loss in Pan Am was caused by that coach using Moriah and Stewie in too many games too long. In the final game both were exhausted, AND, Kia had her greatest game ever up to that point and a few years beyond.  Should Canada have played that USA team a week before or one later, USA would win.
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