Results tagged “Olympics” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

I need to preface this posting with the following comment: I am as happy as the next woman that Team GB did so well in the Olympic medal table.

One cannot fail to have been moved by the mix of joy, elation and often pain on the faces of our athletes over during the Beijing Games, whether they 'medalled' (since when was that a verb?) or simply completed their event. The UK has gone Olympic-mad with pride, and with great justification. All Olympians are very special people indeed.

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Much discussion has taken place over investment in elite sport, particularly in the disciplines where we've achieved such success, and it's clear that we have a winning formula: UK talent x investment = return. Injuries and illnesses aside, where the sports' governing bodies have got things sussed to identify upcoming talent and where money has been invested, we've won medals. Great.

Looking forward to 2012, there is already talk of even more medals in London as the home nation always has an edge with the opportunity to familiarise itself with the venues long in advance of the incoming nations, as well as the support of the crowds. But we do need to look at where the money to pay for this is coming from.