The IOC found over 2,000 athletes failed the drug tests in 2000 they wrote an official letter stating that anyone purposly using drugs to enhance performance would be disqualified but then issued a new bylaw that said except the the case of unintential use and did nothing to the majority of athletes.
First of all, denise, is this you? You don't have to create a new account to post. That's something Ray Terry would do. Just post under your regular name.
I agree with the unintentional use exclusion. Otherwise we would be excluding people who drank cough syrup with ephedrine in it from the Olympics. How does that make things better?
It is the Olmypics that is the problem that bastardizes any sport it gets its hands on and abuses minors by adults the worship of 1st place at any price and the money and coruption that goes along with it.
I disagree. The Olympic Games has inspired millions to reach their full potential. Nothing is perfect, but the Olympics in itself is a great concept, the world coming together for one big celebration. Nothing is perfect, and certainly there are things that can be worked on, but I wouldn't throw the whole thing out just because of some abuses in some sports.
The base problem with all commercial martial art is has been the comflict of power money ego and all vices which are the exact oposite of what they are supposed to have power over. the bigger the organization the larger the paridox.
what are they supposed to have power over? I don't quite understand your point.
It is true in a purely object manner there is only one tkd and sport and tradition are one but not in practice the worship and primary focus to elevate the elite at the cost of the general public over complete traditional art values of the whole person and tkd as a family has over time here hurt the art form even Korea itself has transitioned to a much braoder field of events to be more creative and inclusive.
Then we need to work on the execution, not the concept. The pioneers did everything to encourage unification. They themselves wholly adopted the new forms, the new certification and they new organizations. The problem is that not all their students embraced it in the same way.
There is no going back it is salvage the positive there is just this huge fear that if tkd looses its Olympic status some how it will fade away? when 99% of the people will never become elite fighters why shoud they all be slaves to it or the 1%.
The concern is not that Taekwondo will fade away if we lose Olympic status; it is that all the hard work and sacrifice would have been for nothing if we lose that status, especially if we lose it for reasons that could have totally been prevented. We have idiots at the helm, who have no worries that we are heading straight for the iceberg. Being in Taekwondo right now almost feels like one is a passenger on the Titanic.
If I were to think from a purely selfish perspective, I would say that even if Taekwondo loses Olympic status, then I personally would be ok, because when the USTU went down, I ceased to be vested in either our NGB or the WTF itself. So I will be ok. But then what about all of the others who do have a vested interest in seeing Taekwondo continue to be an Olympic sport, like the up and coming athletes all over the world who have trained ten or more years only to find out that their training was for nothing? Should I step on their dreams by declaring that the Olympics are bad, that I don't need Kukkiwon certification because I don't to do "sport" and to rail out every chance I get because I cannot relate to what they are doing, from my "self defense" perspective?
Our society has the memory of an Alzhiermer patient just add a little time and they forget any offense no matter how bad.
I think people have a selective memory and choose to remember only what they want to remember. There are a lot of people out there who still believe the BS about the USTU, that it was decertified (when it was NOT) and so forth.
USTU is being held up as if it was the perfect model but if it had not basic problems it would have not failed and left us with mess of USAT we have today.
I don't know if the USTU was a perfect model, but it certainly was much better than what we have now at USAT. No one really argues that point.
There will be a NGB if USAT can just loose that last 15% of people it would be only natural to move it to the USTC which can serve all tkd members and I feel that GM Lee would have the support of many who understand what we have all learned from the mistakes of USTU and USAT to build a better organization for the future.
USTC is not interested in becoming the next Taekwondo NGB in the US. There are two main candidates though who do want it. One is the MAC group, who is working very hard, and then there is the ATU, which is also working hard, but from a different angle and different approach.
In the meantime AAU and friendship tournaments or festivals are a much better medium to give cultural and development to our students.
I think that if you want to help your color belt an younger black belt athletes gain some national experience, then AAU is the place to go, for now. What everyone should be doing is boycotting USAT, on everything. Don't give them a single dime that you don't absolutely positively have to. Believe me, they are on the ropes and can't survive much longer. Everything points to an imminent meltdown.