What is wrong?

Moothead2 · 11 Aug 2012 at 22:25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics

They've gotten a **** tonne of golds in the last few days :eek:

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NZB · 11 Aug 2012 at 22:31

Merlin5 said:
I wish we could get just 2 more golds and round it up to 30, that would be nice.

Boxing tomorrow, maybe.

I don't think the Russians can catch us now in golds but it was close.

mollymoo · 11 Aug 2012 at 22:57

Yeah I feel confident with the boxing.

Blue160 · 11 Aug 2012 at 23:12

BunnyKillBot said:
I understand it's early days, but I fully expect this trend to continue. Why? Because we are not good enough, simple. There are so many barriers to entry to 'sport' in the UK that much talent is wasted, neglected or simply never nurtured to shine.

Quoting this from the first page just because I'm so happy it was so wrong.

Amazing effort by Team GB over the last couple of weeks. Brilliant to see our athletes punching above their weight in so many different sports. I just hope this continues to the next Olympics and beyond rather than fizzling out now the home games are (nearly) over.

drunkenmaster · 11 Aug 2012 at 23:17

Blue160 said:
Quoting this from the first page just because I'm so happy it was so wrong.

Amazing effort by Team GB over the last couple of weeks. Brilliant to see our athletes punching above their weight in so many different sports. I just hope this continues to the next Olympics and beyond rather than fizzling out now the home games are (nearly) over.

Most of the funding is in place till 2015 or 2020, lotto money that is and that is where the majority of it is coming from at the moment. To be honest I think it should be renewed as people play the lotto, it makes loads of cash and its definitely a good place to spend it.

We'll get a good post olympics take up of everything we were successful in and funding in place for a few years, we shouldn't drop off that badly by the next olympics though we'll probably drop down below Beijing numbers.

qqg3 · 11 Aug 2012 at 23:56

Gold tommorrow in boxing will wrap things up nicely.

USA and China are in a league of their own so 3rd is very very impressive, Russia have charged up the table but it's too little too late.

Fantastic home games performance from GB. I think the only let down is our swimmers, but clearly the Americans know the pool better than any one else.

NZB · 12 Aug 2012 at 00:24

drunkenmaster said:
Most of the funding is in place till 2015 or 2020, lotto money that is and that is where the majority of it is coming from at the moment. To be honest I think it should be renewed as people play the lotto, it makes loads of cash and its definitely a good place to spend it.

We'll get a good post olympics take up of everything we were successful in and funding in place for a few years, we shouldn't drop off that badly by the next olympics though we'll probably drop down below Beijing numbers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19226099

Apparently it was guaranteed til 2014 and is now extended to 2016. £87mil from the lottery and 40mil from the government per year.

£1billion to be invested in school sports.

We will probably drop off in medals though, happens to every country after they host.

Skeeter · 12 Aug 2012 at 00:31

Indeed, but as the BBC have spoke about a bit hopefully we can learn from what's happened to Australia.

Racerdude · 12 Aug 2012 at 07:47

Difference between Russia and Great Britain is most Russian athletes are Russian while many of ours are imported from 3rd world countries. Don't get me wrong it's good in some ways because we are helping them out and we get medals in return.

FrankJH · 12 Aug 2012 at 08:03

Racerdude said:
Difference between Russia and Great Britain is most Russian athletes are Russian while many of ours are imported from 3rd world countries. Don't get me wrong it's good in some ways because we are helping them out and we get medals in return.

Not true actually - most of the medal winners are actually British through and through

For all the speculation about "plastic" brits - I cant think of one that got a gold or even silver

(dont even try with Mo Farah, as he has been in England for about 20 years after his parents bought him here as a kid)

edit - given the amount of probable retirements, it may be difficult to get the same amount in Rio - but who knows, there are also a number of athletes who underperfmed as well (possibly due to pressure of home games - who knows though), or circumstances just worked against them - like two of the sailers who really deserved golds but got silver instead (or nothing)

mithrandir · 12 Aug 2012 at 08:07

Racerdude said:
Difference between Russia and Great Britain is most Russian athletes are Russian while many of ours are imported from 3rd world countries. Don't get me wrong it's good in some ways because we are helping them out and we get medals in return.

Who are imported? :confused:

Racerdude · 12 Aug 2012 at 08:07

FrankJH said:
Not true actually - most of the medal winners are actually British through and through

For all the speculation about "plastic" brits - I cant think of one that got a gold or even silver

(dont even try with Mo Farah, as he has been in England for about 20 years after his parents bought him here as a kid)

I didn't know that I thought Mo Farah literally just came over here in the last year or so. I guess that is why I shouldn't read the dailymail.

Freddie1980 · 12 Aug 2012 at 08:17

Have you heard Mo Farah speak? Yes he was born in Somalia but he's been living in Britain since he was 5 due to war.

Squark · 12 Aug 2012 at 09:02

Apparently Yorkshire has won as many Gold medals as Australia XD

HangTime · 12 Aug 2012 at 11:12

^^To be fair it does make you wonder though in terms of genetic disposition, we've never had a champion at long distance running until now and the guy who has delivered it only came here at the age of 8. In fact I think I'm right in saying we've never won gold in the Euros or Worlds over 10k either.

The reason that is 'important' is that in terms of future prospects it does make you wonder, in terms of whether GB can be competitive even if a new generation is inspired to take up Athletics, even if the profile of long-distance running is raised, even if more funding goes in to it.

Irish_Tom · 12 Aug 2012 at 11:16

^^ We'll just have to rely on inspiring kids who are of Somali/Etheopian/Kenyan decent.

NZB · 12 Aug 2012 at 12:50

Other countries like USA and Russia are ranking us 4th as they do it by overall medals

Firestar_3x · 12 Aug 2012 at 13:10

Have the USA always done it that way, or only since the Chinese came along?....

Skeeter · 12 Aug 2012 at 13:11

HangTime said:
^^To be fair it does make you wonder though in terms of genetic disposition, we've never had a champion at long distance running until now and the guy who has delivered it only came here at the age of 8. In fact I think I'm right in saying we've never won gold in the Euros or Worlds over 10k either.

The reason that is 'important' is that in terms of future prospects it does make you wonder, in terms of whether GB can be competitive even if a new generation is inspired to take up Athletics, even if the profile of long-distance running is raised, even if more funding goes in to it.

What about Galen Rupp. I know he's American, but he's white, and very nearly beat Mo.

We can 'grow our own', maybe Mo should coach them

Mark A · 12 Aug 2012 at 13:17

NZB said:
Other countries like USA and Russia are ranking us 4th as they do it by overall medals

Well, they're doing it wrong, so who cares