347 Gold Medal for gb at RIO

[eighthobstruction]

At an investment of £347 million by UK Sport for Elite Athletes aiming at maximising medal chances at RIO, what chance that we will gain 347 medal at an investment £1 miilion each....??

Surely medals do not matter as much as grass roots involvement; seeing that Heritage was supposed to be high on agenda of UK Olympic bid ....medals do matter to a point but participation of the many, in team sports across the UK must be given more funding and attention....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/dec/18/british-basketball-appeal-uk-sport-funding

[MrGongGong]

Didn't the East Germans, Russians and Romanians used to do this ?
Of course you can buy yourself an olympic medal and then say how great you are

which has as much to do with the rest of us being more active as my piano playing has to that of Alfred Brendel

[eighthobstruction]

the sixty odd medals won in London cost a minimum of £4.5 million each....

[MrGongGong]

the sixty odd medals won in London cost a minimum of £4.5 million each....

what a bargain, makes one proud to be British dunnit

[Frances_iom]

Bread and Circuses spring to mind - tho bread is likely to be priced off the menu soon - luckily Clegg suggests relooking at drug legislation - Huxley's Soma (or a new equivalent) is probably the cheapest option to keep the masses quiet "...there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end,..."

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Didn't the East Germans, Russians and Romanians used to do this ?
Of course you can buy yourself an olympic medal and then say how great you are

which has as much to do with the rest of us being more active as my piano playing has to that of Alfred Brendel

"There is no such thing as Society!" and then she sold the playing fields ...

... but it was John Major Esq who created the lottery funding for British Sports and Culture .....

the Physicists present a different argument when their funding for teaching pure as opposed to applied science was cut .... we need to teach the interesting theory and cosmologies they said, so as to inspire new generations of graduates who will become practical technologists in eg the energy industries later ... in other words Mr GongGong without Mr Brendel or another such, you may well not be playing piano ....