{"id":1987,"date":"2008-06-03T16:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2008-06-03T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:16:37","slug":"go-for-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Go for the gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Front page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/01\/sports\/olympics\/01gold.html\">coverage<\/a>\u00a0on China&#8217;s quest to lead in the gold medals this summer.\u00a0 Rowing has improved a lot and quickly over the past few years.\u00a0 The formula seemingly predicable: poor kids hauled from rural areas sweating it out, 7 days a week, 7 years and counting.\u00a0 I often wondered is there a fairness even in Olympic.\u00a0 On one hand the best gets to compete in the O every four years.\u00a0 On the other hand,\u00a0can you pit an athlete that has to making a living wait tables (or other\u00a0kind of day job)\u00a0against another who&#8217;s\u00a0entirely funded by the government, all he or she has to do is to perfecting their game without worry to make ends meet?\u00a0 Is it fair to include professionals, especially like tennis and basketball when\u00a0the players all make very comfortable living, have their own well publicized tourneys throughout year?\u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t we give this opportunity to amateurs?\u00a0 Any one still remembers the Americans (amateur and collegiate players) win over Russians (the best professionals in the world) in 1980 in Lake Placid (up state New York), that dabbed Miracle on Ice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front page coverage\u00a0on China&#8217;s quest to lead in the gold medals this summer.\u00a0 Rowing has improved a lot and quickly over the past few years.\u00a0 The formula seemingly predicable: poor kids hauled from rural areas sweating it out, 7 days a week, 7 years and counting.\u00a0 I often wondered is there a fairness even in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}