my thoughts are simple. If you don't go then you don't have the right to say that the best teams weren't there. If the Russians don't come to the Olympics then people can say the best didn't show and the person who won the gold isn't the best.
You are either in or you are out. if you are out then you have no right insulting the teams that were there and since Express won, they are the best team in that age group regardless.
Everyone knows the 1980 and 1984 olympics were jokes because the US didn't appear in one and the USSR didn't appear in the other. What point are you trying to make. Maybe next year the Maryland teams will go and the LI teams will stay home.
