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The Official Olympic Thread

Sheikh Ma Nuggets said:
Has always baffled me as to why Britain doesn't adopt a similar college sports model to that in the US. Have colleges which specialise in developing athletes in certain sports; attracting specialist funding both from private companies and central government. A bit like how certain universities are better for famous for certain subjects - the same should be developed for certain sports.

It's about pooling and focusing resources. If your funding is dispersed across a wider scope, then its impact isn't going to be that great. But bring it all together and suddenly you create a nucleus. From that, embryonic talent can be attracted to and nurtured into world class athletes. It's furthering the principle which has developed such dominance in cycling; amazing R&D using complex CFD modelling, which puts them miles ahead of the rest. Focused knowledge, expertise and experience.

The UK seems to have these athletics clubs, but - as far as I'm aware - there isn't an academy or anything which promising athletes can go to, in order to progress up to that world-class level? Same with swimming: lots of swimming clubs, but no national centre of excellence? I'm guessing the same is probably true of gymnastics.

Isn't the UK the most obese country in Europe or something? That's not something to be proud about - it's embarrassing, and there should be some serious focus applied in order to reverse that trend. Sport is a massive motivator, so we don't wanna be hearing about the stories of funding being cut - completely counterintuitive, if you want to be competitive in the Olympics in 8, 12 & 16yrs time.

The 'legacy' HAS to be more, than just merely throwing £9Bn at some brick part of East London. The true legacy should be about not only inspiring youth athletes to become the gold medallists of tomorrow, but also ensuring that you actually have the facilities, programme and attitudes in place to actually do those aspirations justice.
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Sports participation is up massively. A million extra cyclists than 4 years ago for instance. We now have a split country of ever more obese fatties and sporty healthy people. Men exercise far more than women as well.
 
Leeds Spur said:
Sports participation is up massively. A million extra cyclists than 4 years ago for instance. We now have a split country of ever more obese fatties and sporty healthy people. Men exercise far more than women as well.
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It seems to be a pattern. The US is the fattest nation (ignoring a few Pacific Islands) and has a large number of extremely successful athletes in many sports. Australia is second fattest and is sports-mad with a great tradition in many sports. We are the fattest in Europe and are the most successful european sorting nation now (ahead of German and even Russia). Now China is making progress and I bet they have more fatties than ever in their history.

So I think I will have a large cheese burger and chips with a few pints and do my bit for British sporting success. O:)
 
linnet_spur said:
Me too, really torn on it. I guess if he's served his ban, then fair enough.
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One of the American sprinters earlier (possible Gaitlin?). They said he tested positive for amphetamines a decade ago, then had a suspension for testosterone and is now back. What happened to the two strikes rule?
 
Wonderful work by Jess this morning, she's almost there, go on girl.

Murray and Robson into the mixed doubles semis, can Murray come away with a couple of medals?
 
Ennis has performed. Massive guts from her given the expectation. brick and Javelin near her PB when she is so small compared to the others.
 
Yeah I know what you mean. But it's an accurate way of conveying my meaning. I suppose its a turn of phrase like vocal minority.
 
linnet_spur said:
Just hope he doesn't tire out to much for Federer, playing the semi tonight. At the least the mixed is 2 normal sets then a tie breaker set rather than a third set
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He fit enough and Fed played double the time Murray did in his semi. But you've gotta favour Roger.
 
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