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Originally Posted by bulliver
Surely you mean "all for ourselves". No right is being done either. Unless the oval is being used 24/7 from now until February for official events which I doubt...then to deny other speed skating teams some time for practice runs is straight up selfish and unsportmanslike and damn the 'federation requirements'. The Americans let us use the track in SLC before the Olympics there...and the Italians let both the US and Canadian teams use the ice in Torino.
Not very Canadian if you ask me....
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Did you even read my post?
The Americans and every other nation were granted the specified training time as agreed upon by the International Skating Union. The same was granted to Canadians at Salt Lake and Torino....and like Salt Lake and Torino, we're not giving our competitors more time than required. Everyone has had the requried experience with the oval and many athletes have been able to compete there in the World Cups and Championships it has hosted over the last year.
The oval has been under construction since mid-October for a pre-Olympic refit (stadium seating, tv lights, cameras, etc.) and it won't be open for any sort of training until late-January.