For you there's a heck of a lot more options. We just don't *do* winter sports. Much. There's Aviemore or there's paying hundreds and hundreds for a single week to ski in the Alps. So only the rich even get a start on winter events.
That's true, though I live in a part of the country where it snows about once a year, if that, and we're not all madly cross-country skiing to work every day. But point taken. And we at least _have_ mountains and places where our athletes can go to train. Our athletes haven't had money to support them, though, until the 2010 announcement; now there's all kinds of government support, which does seem to be showing signs of paying off at these games.
You have an awful lot of North to go to if all else fails. *g*
Sadly, government support is available to so many athletes these days that any country which doesn't yet give it will be at a big disadvantage. Look at the Chinese skaters...
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Sadly, government support is available to so many athletes these days that any country which doesn't yet give it will be at a big disadvantage. Look at the Chinese skaters...