Lottery Funding & Olympics

Hacker Khan said:
Sorry for being pedantic but he lives/ trains in Derby. ;)
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Apologies your right he does come from Derby, should have googled it and not been so lazy.:)

So had a look on google and they say 3 swimming pools have closed in Derby in the last year through lack of funding. Kind of makes a mockery when many come on tv and say Peatys win will inspire youngsters to take up the sport. Not for Derbys youngsters it won't
 
Hacker Khan said:
As you are living in Portugal do you by any chance get all your news about what is happening in the Uk from The Daily Mail or Express?

Come on then, name me Russia's premier 5 and 10 thousand meter runner that would have had Mo, given the chance.
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ZZZZZZzzzzzzz why do dimwits try to make out where somebody chooses to live as a part of their childish agenda?

Mo failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours a few years back before the London Olympics by lets say inconvenient Drug testers. That is a fact! It was his second missed drug test!!!!!!


I never said that any Russian athlete would beat him in the 5 and 10 thousand meters but they had at least 6 great medal chances in track and field stolen from them due to the ban.

I think that with the evidence of Mos trainer and his training partner being brought into disrepute with drug use and the fact he failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours by drug testers when he was hiding in his home (he claimed he slept through it all ) is proof that something smelt rotten in Denmark.

You may disagree but my theory will never change because it all adds up. .
 
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Alucard said:
ZZZZZZzzzzzzz why do dimwits try to make out where somebody chooses to live as a part of their childish agenda?

Mo failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours a few years back before the London Olympics by lets say inconvenient Drug testers. That is a fact! It was his second missed drug test!!!!!!


I never said that any Russian athlete would beat him in the 5 and 10 thousand meters but they had at least 6 great medal chances in track and field stolen from them due to the ban.

I think that with the evidence of Mos trainer and his training partner being brought into disrepute with drug use and the fact he failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours by drug testers when he was hiding in his home (he claimed he slept through it all ) is proof that something smelt rotten in Denmark.

You may disagree but my theory will never change because it all adds up. .
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Insulting people now? Brandy must be going down well,
Can you explain how banning drug cheats means they have had medals stolen from them, surely it's the clean athletes who have been robbed for years?
 
pauldj42 said:
Insulting people now? Brandy must be going down well,
Can you explain how banning drug cheats means they have had medals stolen from them, surely it's the clean athletes who have been robbed for years?
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Simply because we did not know for sure they were drug cheats but Mo sticks out like a sore thumb to me and many other good judges as did Linford as he was getting faster as he got older and in sprinting thats a No No.
Bt the way the Greek Brandy went down well you should try some yourself to chill out a bit, I just had a large measure after I posted the facts about Mo and the 2 missed drugs tests. One rule for one and another for another as they say, oh well Goodnight.
 
Alucard said:
ZZZZZZzzzzzzz why do dimwits try to make out where somebody chooses to live as a part of their childish agenda?

Mo failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours a few years back before the London Olympics by lets say inconvenient Drug testers. That is a fact! It was his second missed drug test!!!!!!


I never said that any Russian athlete would beat him in the 5 and 10 thousand meters but they had at least 6 great medal chances in track and field stolen from them due to the ban.

I think that with the evidence of Mos trainer and his training partner being brought into disrepute with drug use and the fact he failed to answer his door being kicked off its hinges for a couple of hours by drug testers when he was hiding in his home (he claimed he slept through it all ) is proof that something smelt rotten in Denmark.

You may disagree but my theory will never change because it all adds up. .
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www.canisueforthat.com/can-i-sue-for-false-accusations/
No legal expert but you might be sailing pretty close to wind matey. :thup:
 
Lots of mud has been thrown around towards Farah and his coach and none of it has stuck - accusations but none proven

It's a shame that when someone does well in the sporting arena that people are automatically suspicious and I think in modern times that is a natural reaction

But I don't think it's fair - as with everything in life Farah should be treated as clean until someone proves otherwise - they get tested so much on such a regular basis that it must be very very hard to dodge being caught.

Missing tests doesn't automatically mean they are cheating - Farah missed two but then so many have missed tests throughout their career but are still clean athletes.

Maybe I'm niave about it but as far as I'm concerned they are clean until proven otherwise - GB have had a few been caught but we can all name them which shows exactly how small a number it is

Maybe we should just applaud Farahs hard work and dedication to his sport and congratulate him on his amazing feats instead of pointing the finger of accusations

For me half the time those that accuse are either bitter or jealous but I hope they aren't right
 
Liverpoolphil said:
It's a shame that when someone does well in the sporting arena that people are automatically suspicious and I think in modern times that is a natural reaction
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I think this is down to for years this country having an attitude of celebrating the plucky loser/underdog rather than celebrating success. However this is beginning to change - in large part due to London 2012 - and hopefully we'll see more GB sports men and women adopting a tougher mentality and winning attitude when it comes to competition. On this point, was so refreshing to hear one of our medal recipients say something along the lines of "You only 'win' gold; you 'take home' the other medals" - that's what everyone should be saying.
 
I didn't know where to post this but it is not worth a thread on its own and it is Olympic related. Question for you. The athletes came home today on a specially chartered flight. Who decides who went 1st class, business or standard? Too many gold medallists to do it based on that. Lots of big, tall, muscular and wide, people on there. Far more than the number of big seats. I'm sure they all get served the same food etc, it is seat size that is critical on long haul. Who gets the beds and who gets folded up and cramped in the cattle seats. How does it work?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I didn't know where to post this but it is not worth a thread on its own and it is Olympic related. Question for you. The athletes came home today on a specially chartered flight. Who decides who went 1st class, business or standard? Too many gold medallists to do it based on that. Lots of big, tall, muscular and wide, people on there. Far more than the number of big seats. I'm sure they all get served the same food etc, it is seat size that is critical on long haul. Who gets the beds and who gets folded up and cramped in the cattle seats. How does it work?
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Joe Joyce in the biggest best seat, rowing cox at the back of economy and free for all for the rest. ;)

Probably a huge booze-up mile high club shenanigans! I have it on very good authority that the Olympic village in the last few days when everyone's finished their events turns into something akin to the last days of Pompeii - into a shagfest basically.:o
 
Bearing in mind how many golds we won, don't forget a team winning eg rowing 8, womens hockey, cycling 4 etc counts as one gold, then that plane would have a disproportionate number of left turn seats. Did they re-configure the plane?
 
Wouldn't shock me if the management and pen pushers went left and the athletes right.
 
Certainly when they were interviewing athletes on 5 live in the run up they were saying that the added bonus of a gold medal was that you got to fly first class on the way back. Not sure who takes priority if there are not enough seats.
 
So what is the real benefit of this funding. Is it the pride in peeing higher up the wall than countries like China (I know it's not an actual Olympic event yet) . Is it to show that British sports people can be honed into world class athletes if we throw enough money at it. Is it a way of encouraging other people to participate in sports for the betterment of their health/well being/bank accounts. Is it, as suggested; a way to increase and improve sports facilities around the country for the betterment of all?

If I think with my heart then it's great, with my head I'm not so sure, maybe all this money could be better targeted to improve the lives and aspirations of the hard up and disenfranchised, you don't see many rowing teams emerging from Peckham Comp .
 
SocketRocket said:
So what is the real benefit of this funding. Is it the pride in peeing higher up the wall than countries like China (I know it's not an actual Olympic event yet) . Is it to show that British sports people can be honed into world class athletes if we throw enough money at it. Is it a way of encouraging other people to participate in sports for the betterment of their health/well being/bank accounts. Is it, as suggested; a way to increase and improve sports facilities around the country for the betterment of all?

If I think with my heart then it's great, with my head I'm not so sure, maybe all this money could be better targeted to improve the lives and aspirations of the hard up, you don't see many rowing teams emerging from Peckham Comp .
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Not yet from Peckham Comp, but maybe in the future, the amount of medal winners from state funded schools rose this year,
Dujardin, Kenny, Whitlock, Trott and Farah amongst others all went to Comprehensives.
We'll never please everyone, but so long as we see infrastructure improve and UK Sport continue, with what I believe, to use the robust selection criteria for funding then it gets my support.
 
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