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[RC] Why the French Win -- From an Insider - k s swigartIn response to Dabney's post Jackie Cosgrove said: Why the French win..... I must confess that my overriding reponse to seeing this subject line in the archives along with all the many posts/questions about "why the French win?" is to say to myself.... ....but the French DIDN'T win. Like the US, at this event, the French team wasn't even in the running. It was the Italians who won, the Belgians, the Australians, and the Canadians were the only teams to even finish. I think this is something that some people ought to take into consideration before trying to figure out how the US endurance riders can be more like the French. Considering that this year's showing was about as bad of a showing as the US team has ever made at a WEC and that this year the selection and preparation process was done in such a way as to attempt to emulate the French model, one MIGHT consider that attempting to emulate the French isn't necessarily the road to success. Especially since it didn't work much better for the French this time than it did for the US :). Personally, if one looks back at the years when the US was most successful at the WEC (the early years), the evidence suggests that the best way to select a team is to have people who would like to go apply telling why they think they would be the best for it, have the selectors pick the ones that they think would be best for it, and then let those individuals manage their horses to their best. It is, after all, what worked so well in the past :). kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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