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		theshrike79 on July 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canadian women's soccer team loses six points, coa... > Now in many cases, it is now a bunch of multi-millionaires feeding their somewhat narcissistic drives I can guarantee you that even all of the athletes in my country don't sum up to multi-millionaire status together :D They all have day jobs.

jmclnx on July 28, 2024 [–]

I am sure that is true, but we are never shown that. In this country we only get to see sports our athletes are contenders in and only matches they are playing in :(

Plus this professionalism mostly lock out countries like yours and small countries from able to compete fairly. Most of the time the pros always win.

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