heck yea it is loosing respect. And honestly i believe being a multi-sport athletes having done everything from soccer,basketball,baseball,football,wrestling,cross country,and track in my highschool/middleschool years it is my conclusion that no one sacrifices their body more than the competitive serious track athlete. Which is why it utterly annoys me that track gets probably the second least respect right behind xc. even for example at our school our most succesful programs by far have been track an xc bringing both state titles every year. no other sprot has made it to the state championship but track and cross country in our school history, yet who do you think gets the budget increase each year and all the respect not us thats who.