Let’s treat our athletes right

We keep sending our young people into battle under-prepared, under-funded and expect miracles from them. They give up their youth and earning capacity at the peak of their earning potential to represent the red, white and black, but it’s like giving them a penknife to go to war.

I have long suggested that we either have a sport lottery or use part of the NLCB Lotto to fund our athletes, as is done in other countries.

The funny thing is, sport is always there as a rally to raise us up and give us a reason to cheer (remember 2006 with the World Cup football team), but are we fair to our sportsmen and women or just bandwaggonists? So please, let’s treat our athletes right.

R PATINO via email