This is not the QWorld Invitationals, where participation is based on your personal record and the notion that followers might want to see the best compete amomgst each other for top-dog bragging rights.
This is The Olympics, where contries compete against each other to see who can field the most photogenic human interest story representative, and the top two preumptive martial/economic superpowers will vie for alpha status via the collection of medals. Remember when the Cold War balance of power rested on the outcome of a hockey game? These days the goram Red Chinese are fielding a beach volleyball team that is not buck-teethed ugly. (OK, so I watched a game on the idiot box. I didn't plan to, but I doubt anybody will buy my story so will not bore you with it.) Besides that, they were only one medal behind us for domination of the known universe!
Being the "national" team you must play by their rules and do what they say to represent your countrty in all the mundane, petty stuff as well as coming in first, second, or third in whatever event you were selected for. St. Kitts and Nevis gets free tourist advertising dollars having the TeeWee folks cover their pathetic team's practice sessions. (2003 world champ? Heck, that was not even a year when they played the Olympics, so who cares if he was "world champion" then. What's he been doing since then, besides getting married and paying attention to his wife? [/dripping sarcasm]
stay safe.
