The highest honour?
Would you compete for another country in international sport if they paid you to switch sides?
A top Kenyan track star has and he’s changed his name to suit his new employers.
Swapping countries to represent like this really winds me up, and its not just in athletics, rugby is absolutely full of guys playing for countries they have little connection with, just check out the forth coming World Cup.
Rugby says you can play for a country if you’ve lived there for three years, so at the last World Cup Japan had New Zealanders, Tongans, Fijians, Samoans in their squad, the Aussies and Kiwis had similar recruits from the pacific islands.
The French now have South Africans and New Zealanders in their team, and you’ll hear Kiwi accents in the Welsh and Scottish dressing rooms.
To me it really dilutes international competetion, I want to see the best a country can produce not who they can hire in.
Play for one country and no changing sides.
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Agreed. Its a tough issue though because say a player wanted to move to NZ from Tonga and be a citizen, he should be able to compete if he makes the team.
My idea is that a player should only be able to play for 1 country in his life and that there should be a waiting period of a year or 2 after a citizenship change. These measures would cut out a lot of the nonsense.