Topic: If you are a National Weightlifting coach......

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Perhaps you would like a basic outline of some of the other unusual features of this center. There would be no dorms but rather houses for each athlete and their family if they have one with them, no cafeteria though we'd surely have a kitchen in the clubhouse. No institutionalization of any kind; no bureaucracy. All would be on my private property of course and there would be rent for the house though I would certainly subsidize it to give incentive and make convenient living at the center. Why not pay the whole rent? Because without the profit-loss mechanism operating on the athlete, they do not have as great an economic incentive to perform. They must pay their own bills- rent (subsidized), food, etc and then they must earn their living on the platform. What could be better than that? This also would serve to limit residents to those who can earn enough money on the platform to pay their bills. Of course, it would become very competitive to not only get in the program but to stay in it since there are obvious limits to the size of the center and its capacity. As lifting quality rises and their paychecks along with it, the expenses they face will obviously be insignificant and thus will not check the expansion of lifters wanting to join the center. At this point, new centers could be formed elsewhere with the profits from the first.

[Arturo Gómez]

And the differenctial with other mecenas is the freedom.

[Mike Frost]

Government has nothing that it doesn't first steal. Any government funding of weightlifting is pure and utter evil and I would have nothing but total disdain for it.

Who cares? As long as they're not stealing from charitable organizations, medicare, and insurances, who cares?

We need funding for weightlifting.

Who cares?!? Every time you speak I loose respect for you. I suggest learning about government and how it operates. Chris is right and frankly your saying theirs nothing wrong, so is their something wrong with folks paying taxes who live pay-check to pay-check and can't afford to fund a non-essiential thing such as weightlifting?!?!? I'm not a fan of lawn bowling, should we be funding that?? I've seen the success of private weightlifting clubs, we DONT NEED GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT!!!

Lets look at it from a realistic perspective without using political ideology. If government controls weightlifting, it would most likely turn into the Chinese model where only the absolute best would get to train. Whats funny is Viktoricus is an amature weightlifter who wouldn't qualify for their "great experiment" so you would suffer under that system of high taxes to promote weightlifting. If their were 10+weightlifting clubs in an American city you would have some with serious caliber athletes and others for lames like Viktoricus.

LOL to hammer the point home, arguably the strongest man in the world(based on his overall ability to dominate all strength sports) Mikael Koklayev to my knowledge was told by Russian officials "he wouldn't make the cut" LMAO!!!! This is a man so strong at any given time he could waltz in a gym and break world records, that most people take decades just to get their, and thats just in 1 strength sport LOL!!!!!! Proof government has no proper vision for you, me, or any citizen.

[Arturo Gómez]

I think sports doesn t need funds private or public. I think people must leave of there work. Not slave work, that you could not train. Normal work. Normal life. Probably results be better with sponsors (public or private). But not is necessary.