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document.write("<h5>FREE CHOICE</h5>");
document.write("Let the best man/woman win, under whatever flag, and this is usually where they feel more confortable and welcome. Afterall, no one is ever forced to change nationality, people usually do that because of their own free choice.. Mohamed Fouad");
document.write("<h5>Flying under a new flag</h5>");
document.write("Well, these 3 medals would have done SA proud this time round.<br />It not only about sport, it's about life after sport.<br /><br />Peter. Peter");
document.write("<h5>objectively...</h5>");
document.write("I think we should look at the individual decisions of athletes to switch as objectively as possible. No one screems when soccer players and rugby players switch countries and play for overseas clubs, even to the point that they are not available to play for their own country. In the final analysis, these are careers and we are talking about people's dreams and money. SA does not value athletics and aquatics and that is reflected in the investment that goes toward that. Pay them and they will stay.. Enoch");
document.write("<h5>Agreed</h5>");
document.write("Quite right, Enoch. People tend to forget that sport is also a career where you get paid to do a job. No-one complains when a businessman goes to work overseas. GG");
document.write("<h5>olympics</h5>");
document.write("Very sad tht our government does not take care/sponsor of our precious stones - dont blame them for looking overseas and, good luck to them and the countries they now represent.. Judhi");
document.write("<h5>freedom</h5>");
document.write("Guess we are free to represent whoever we want to and if a goverment is botching everything up for us its time to move on--look at Zim???. joey");
document.write("<h5>Yes</h5>");
document.write("Take care of your athletes, and they will stay proud to be South African. Let your athletes down and they will look elsewhere for better opportunity and support. What South Africa represented this year is not the SA I knew back in '94. Things change. But because of SA's government with its new \"transformation\" outlook, All else representing SA will suffer. I miss SA very much but things are looking to get much worse. I will not go back. . Jock");
document.write("<h5>Flying a different flag</h5>");
document.write("There is only one reason that SA Athletes (along with the rest of the SA population around the world) leave SA and pledge allegiance to other countrys - crime, AA, BEE. Simple as that. Can you blame them all - not a chance. That why I left!. Matt Patterson");
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