[Puppage]

Olympic hockey, and other sports, lose something when professionals were allowed to play. At least in my book.

[nascarnation]

Well all the other Olympians became professionals too, so the concept of “amateur” is pretty much relegated to history.

[grania]

Olympic hockey, and other sports lost something when professionals were allowed to play

Where do you draw the line? Some of these amateurs have such technical and expensive training it's difficult to call them amateurs.

I don't know how you'd draw the line anymore.