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Article contentCONGRATS, CANADA \u2014 BUT SOCCER DIVING DEFINITELY SILLY<\/p>\n
Re: Too \u2018painful\u2019 to watch, letter to the editor, June 28<\/p>\n
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Congratulations to our Canadian \u201cheroes\u201d who did our country proud by advancing all the way to the Round of 16 at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
But I have to agree with the letter writer who said this sport is just too painful to watch.<\/p>\n
To see a professional athlete, after a slight nick, collapse to the pitch, rolling over and back, arms and legs flailing in the air with a face crying out with tortured agony from his apparent \u201cinjury\u201d, is silly enough.<\/p>\n
Then to see the same wounded, barely alive player, seconds later, pop back up and scoot down the field is purely farcical.<\/p>\n
Seriously?<\/p>\n
Perhaps we should call the game \u201cThe Beautiful Dive\u201d.<\/p>\n
STUART MURRAY
OTTAWA<\/p>\n
AMERICAN WENT HOME \u2014 GET OVER IT<\/p>\n
Re: Quit on Sens long time ago, letter to the editor, online, June 28<\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s over. Get over it.<\/p>\n
Brady Tkachuk was an American playing in Ottawa until something better came along. Both his and his wife\u2019s families all live in the U.S. He simply returned home.<\/p>\n
Many people living here do not consider Canada their true home, either. So, leave.<\/p>\n
Avid sports spectators need to acknowledge that players, regardless of the sport, are contract performers for profit and public amusement.<\/p>\n
If you love the sport, get off your butt and play it.<\/p>\n
Waving and roaring in the stands like trained seals is not participation. It is mass hysteria.<\/p>\n
DYAN CROSS
OTTAWA<\/p>\n
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