You gotta be kidding me. Where there's a will, there's a way! A local boater just got sent to Worlds by a frikkin fundraiser out of our community newspaper (not even the real paper....the freebie).
I got sponsored in full to fly to Brazil one time to the downtown race in Sau Paulol. I asked 2 attorneys and a mortgage broker. They cut the check for it right then. Wound up being too late to get a passport and visa, but it wasn't for lack of money.
Even got sponsored by a local drink company and a internationally famous entertainer/cycling fanatic who stopped by the bike shop on a whim one day. All i had to do was sign a form from his attorney stating it was a private matter. $1000.00 from each. Our team got sponsored by some healthcare place for an entire season. Paid every entry fee.
Every last one of those guys can let their local community know that they are on the worlds team and they will get the whole thing paid for.
If they pay for it out of their own pockets, more power to them. But if they don't pick up the phone and walk down the street to ask...they'll get what they ask for...zero. How bad do they want it?
I got sponsored in full to fly to Brazil one time to the downtown race in Sau Paulol. I asked 2 attorneys and a mortgage broker. They cut the check for it right then. Wound up being too late to get a passport and visa, but it wasn't for lack of money.
Even got sponsored by a local drink company and a internationally famous entertainer/cycling fanatic who stopped by the bike shop on a whim one day. All i had to do was sign a form from his attorney stating it was a private matter. $1000.00 from each. Our team got sponsored by some healthcare place for an entire season. Paid every entry fee.
Every last one of those guys can let their local community know that they are on the worlds team and they will get the whole thing paid for.
If they pay for it out of their own pockets, more power to them. But if they don't pick up the phone and walk down the street to ask...they'll get what they ask for...zero. How bad do they want it?
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