Originally Posted by goof2 (Post 343103)

As I read Trip's post he wasn't talking about banning international competition, just international training and competing in other county's leagues. If you mean World Cup soccer, not being able to have our players play in Europe would definitely hurt our national team, but we could still field a team. Our men's team hasn't won shit in over 100 years and our women's team only accounts for one medal per olympics anyway.

Our downhill skiers would still be able to compete in world cup skiing. There is a World Cup for rugby but I doubt we will be in medal contention when rugby sevens comes to the 2016 games. Beyond that I don't know of any other world cups.

Originally Posted by Apoc (Post 343136)

UMMMM...

World cup of hockey, world cup of skiing, world cup of speed skating, and pretty much every other sport in the world dude. . Almost every sport has a world cup, and if you close off your boarders to other athletes training in your country, you exclude yourself from the world cup.

Originally Posted by goof2 (Post 343145)

I knew about skiing but didn't know about eligibility requirements. Hockey I didn't know about, but considering it has only happened twice in the last 16 years I suspect there are a lot of people who don't know about it and I doubt missing out would cause a tremendous drop in skill. Skating and the rest I don't know about and if we would be excluded I would imagine that would hurt.