Dutch speedskating coach trash talks "American Football"

[Benevolent One]

Coach: U.S. lacks speedskating focus
espn.com

Dutch speedskating coach Jillert Anema knows how the United States can improve on its Olympic 0-fer on the Sochi ovals -- stop playing sports like football.

"You have a lot of attention for foolish sport, like American football," Anema told CNBC on Friday. "You waste a lot of talent, athletic talent, in a sport where it's meant to kill each other, to injure each other.“

"... (The U.S.) is so narrow-minded, and you waste a lot of good talent in a sport that sucks."

Anema believes the United States could do so much better with an improved infrastructure in the sport.

"When you compete once every four years, with talent, with a few lone wolves who are skating, you can't beat the world," Anema told CNBC. "It's no way."

You can't blame Anema for being a bit ****y as the Dutch have won 21 of the country's 22 medals on the speedskating ovals in Sochi.

"I think that the gold medal in speedskating is just as valuable as the gold medal in basketball, and we won 22.
"You'll never win 22 in basketball."

 

[shark77]

We're ahead of them in the medal count for the Sochi Olympics and on top of that, their only medals are in speed skating. Perhaps they should think of diversifying and not wasting all that talent on one sport. I'd dare say there isn't a country more diversified in top athletes at various disciplines than the U.S.

 

[Greg]

So sez Mr An Enema.