Ex-Sport Stars Should Administer SA Sport

The problem with sport in SA, and I have made a big stink about this in the past, is that people who either have very little involvement in the nuts and bolt of the sport (in other words, participation), or otherwise have no experience in understanding and empathising with the discipline and sacrifice involved - these people are calling the shots, and they shouldn't be.
The characters willy nilly decide where money needs to be spent (sports conferences, hotel accomodation and business class flights?), these administrators who decide on who goes, who stays, who should be banned - they don't belong in the sport to begin with. Let our own sportsmen and women govern themselves.

I hope we'll learn the lesson that by allowing ourselves to be distracted and divided, the merit of our performances drops. We need to be 100% focussed on allowing athletes to get on with their jobs, instead of harassing them about the color of their tans, or how many of a certain quota have made a team.

Jeepers, do people [in this country] think you make the Olympic team but submitting a CV...as one would for a job interview?

clipped from www.sundayworld.co.za Olympic flop Roland Schoeman has blamed poor funding for their poor showing at Beijing following his failure to claim SA’s first medallist at the Games. “We are not funded the way the US, Australian and European teams are. The funding we get is meagre in comparison,” said Schoeman, highlighting the SA team’s limitations of preparation and approach. “I hope the response from the SA public is going to be positive – sometimes we win, sometimes we don’t. Schoeman, who once again had the fastest reaction time from the blocks, finished seventh in 21.67, with the front to back of the field being split by only 0.42 seconds.