Wednesday, November 22, 2006

About This Blog:

The Protocol is a first-hand account of "old school" sports corruption on the part of the USSPEEDSKATING administration, from the 1990's through the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, as experienced by one of their own internationally competitive athletes. It describes my own fight against this federation and explains the destructive effects of their corruption on the entire U.S. Speedskating Team.

The purpose of this blog (in addition to satisfying my own need for bloody revenge), is to provide constructive ideas for improving the sport of speedskating for future generations of athletes, and to destroy commonly held misconceptions about the lives of amateur athletes in the United States.
The State of the Federation:

November, 2006. USSPEEDSKATING is still whitewashing its image, trying to live off medals its athletes won in the past, pretending it is not completely falling apart, and spending money it doesn't have. The truth is, in order for this federation to survive, it needs a leader with the kind of vision and ideas that will offer the kind of solution that steps up to the plate and "knocks it out of the park." But all I'm seeing is pathetic little band-aids being used to patch up problems that are cropping up 10 times faster than they can be fixed.

The bad news is that the USOC is giving USSPEEDSKATING extra time to try to clean up its act, because of the respect that the sport of speedskating has earned over time in this country due to the success of its athletes. The good news is that if USSPEEDSKATING fails to clean up its act and experiences the Enron-like crash that I think it will experience sooner or later, then the USOC will be forced to take over and dissolve the USS Board of Directors.