South African Olympics a bit off

As some people may have realised, the South Africans did not feature at the 2008 Being Olympics. The athletes hardest hit by the media’s over critical comments were the swimmers. They might not have won any medals for us (which we needed badly seeing as we only won 1 silver), but it does not mean that they did not try. The biggest thing that most people do not understand, is that it is not EASY?! The media makes it out to be a walk in the park, but have they ever tried making it to the Olympics? Probably not, because if they had then they would not have been so quick to criticize our hard working athletes. This does not only apply to swimming though, but as I am in the know, I will relate most of this to swimming. My training partner and I both went to Olympic trials and though neither of us made it,(my training partner was a lot closer than I) we trained just like every other athlete who tried to make it. And if anyone can stand up and say it is easy to get to that level they must be crazy. I just feel people shuldn’t be so quick to judge our athletes if they never tried making it themselves. Remember these athletes do not get paid for competing, most still have to make their own income.