rajiv

She sounds remarkably normal and knows what's important and what isn't.
I think  that most elite female athletes from the US and Europe in her position would be ringing up their abortionist 
(Can I say that ?)

There are but  5 serious non European  Winter Olympic countries -USA, Canada.Japan, China , Sth Korea ( and the last 2 are Olympic medal obsessives who will pour millions into any event on the Olympic ptogram even if previously unknown to them )
Other countries may win medals eg Australia & NZ  but they are very sporty places who enter everything (& must compete in their summer )
 
 
 

If they only had the best 12 at the Olympics there wouldn't be any Asian or African teams .
Still I don't have much  sympathy for European and Americas teams who don't qualify . They aren't in the top 3 from their continent at the qualifying tournament ( the World Cup ) so they can't complain too much about lost medal opportunities 
 
Still the Olympics are meant to be global .at least in participation 
I have a real problem with the Winter Olympics claiming to be some sort of global event  where many events really are only seriously undertaken in a few European countries  ( And furthermore if they weren't an Olympic event wouldn't even exist outside even fewer  countries  eg luge )
No country south of the Tropic of Cancer -  ie most of the world's people -    ever features 

I doubt that any American or Australian surfing enthusiast or aficionado would share your view . this just sounds like another sporting federation full of fat Europeans who are professional committeemen