Politics, politics, politics

Let me lay it out for you... Some people get to a point in their lives that they decide to train to make the world team. If they are smart and willing to put in the time they usually will. Once you make the world team their are two types of people: Those who realize they are about to represent the USA and decide to train harder or at least keep training, and those who realize they have made the USA world team and think that is good enough.
Those who keep training usually are those who end up skating more then everyone else and doing better then everyone else at worlds the other ones well ehhh.
Then there is this little glitch in our system. Were Juniors must pay their full way to get to worlds. And because their parents must pay their child's full way there becomes a point where a parent has the right to ask why they paid so much for their kid not to race at worlds. Therefore, it is a responsibility for the staff to allow every child to race. But what those parents may not know is if their child has really trained for their chance at worlds.
So the staff at one point must make a decision. Continue to put those best suited for each race in each race, or play the politically correct card. In which turn they will play the politically correct card and in which they practically forfeit a race.
And as they say: there are politics in everything.