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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 4135625, member: 7511"] Don’t confuse Olympic teams with college programs. Olympic teams are national all star teams with a short period of time to get ready for a two week competition. Conditioning and/or player development is not a major focus. Integrating a group of diverse players for a run at a medal is the focus. Canada was considered an outside possibility for a medal. I strongly suspect that the coach figured out pretty quickly who her rotation was going to be and she focused her attention on that group. I’m not seeing that Aaliyah didn’t receive some coaching from the Canadian staff, and I certainly respect the achievement of Aaliyah playing for her country, but there’s no doubt in my mind that her development would have been better served at UConn. [/QUOTE]