As I posted yesterday, we had a huge first obstacle on the road to our dream. Today, we pulled through. Each and every one of us made sacrifices and put in work to get to our goal. It makes me so proud and excited that we can face our problems head on. Every time I present the next problem that we have to face, the team never complains or wallows in the difficulty of the problem, they immediately try to figure out how to get it done.
That was the response when I relayed to the team that there were talks of changing the Olympic qualifying format. In the current system, you can get a team together and win your way to the Olympics through several qualifying tournaments and such. In a possible change to the system, high officials would pick top curlers and put together their own all-star team. This would be potentially dream-breaking, but the team was not phased. The mindset was that we will just have to be the best individual curlers and the best team of curlers.
Though I admire the enthusiasm and confidence, I want to use the end of this post to say that there should be no change to the current system. It encourages that sense of hope and possibility that I think the Olympics are about. It isn't about being bred by our Olympic Committee to be the best, its about working as hard as you can to be the best and do what is necessary to get to the Olympics. It all boils down to who holds the fate of everyone. In the current system, each team holds its own fate if they can win enough. In the new system, our officials would hold the fates of everyone in their hands.
Please don't take away our hope.
-Connor
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