Jim Scherr
Jim Scherr
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Equally troubling is the manner by which this matter, and others, has been handled by the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, which long ago could have taken steps to address and correct this situation. As a result, America's skeleton athletes have had to deal with an unnecessary distraction during their preparation for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games, and that is unacceptable.
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That's the way it should be. The amount of time and energy we spend on that is a fraction of what it was in the past. Our job here is all about performance and making sure athletes are taken care of at the games.
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This team has taken a bit of a hit because of their comportment.
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This team has taken a bit of a hit because of the expectations of some high-profile athletes. It was a case of mismanaged expectations and some unforeseen circumstances. But we'd hope a few incidents would not overshadow what we view as a great performance by our team.
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This team has a taken a hit in terms of its comportment here in Italy because of a couple of incidents involving some high-profile athletes.
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That was absolutely improper and something we have taken great measures to have our athletes not do,
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We will use a number of things that happened here to point out specifically to our next teams, case studies, if you will, how to react and how to present themselves in the games' environment.
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The wrestling world and the state of South Dakota can be very proud of what Jim has accomplished in his life; I know I am. There aren't many jobs in the sports world as powerful as the one he has. And to have someone in that job who comes from a wrestling background is great. He is dealing with some of the most influential business and sports leaders in the world on a weekly basis.
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Prior to Salt Lake, we were an afterthought as a winter sport nation. We had won a few medals, the highest being 13. But we really weren't considered one of the powers in the Winter Olympic Games.
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So overall these Games have seen both mismanaged expectations and some unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances.
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Don't wait for someone else to fix your property. Be part of the leadership team and build El Paso ... take your money, build what you got and be proud of it. Make it what it can be,
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We don't want to second-guess what people do. But at certain points, if certain behavior becomes a distraction to teammates or reflects poorly on the entire U.S. Olympic team, we want to step in and take some action.
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We should have given him the support earlier. We're doing it now.
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We expect a difficult time in terms of the environment going in but clearly we've got some great athletes to face those challenges.