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The Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Russian Free Zone TBF
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It more or less is concurrent with the lottery money put in, it's about the GDP of a small African nation but the dividend is there to see. When athletes can make a proper living and focus solely on their sport it makes such a difference.
Our athletes have to subsidise themselves with part time and usually full time jobs to survive.
The only sport we put the resources into is the high performance boxing although we had some "strange" judging unfortunately this time.
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Modern pentathlon is not very modern is it. I was expecting them to hunt foxes in the next event.
rascal
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Well I've screwed this up
If you've got the time and sit the whole time through and watch a pentathlon it's very boss when a team GB wins gold,,,look at ennis in London
rascal
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But we're not going to beat our gold tally from 2012
hmm we need 2 more somewhere
Donna mater were or how,,,as long as. We finish above the Germans again I'm happy
bizzaro
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Its not just the athletes. Its coaching. Facilities and equipment.
The olympic potentials get the best of everything - or as near as possible. Which means they can genuinely compete.
I remember 1996 and basically we couldn't compete as that was a transitional era where other countries had pretty much gone professional.
Now GB is ultra organised. Ultra equiped and ultra trained.
Other countries are fuming - much like Kopites fume when we beat them. They think they can just pat us on the head. Forgetting that when we get things sorted in GB we get things sorted.
You've got all the facilities from London 2012. All the facilities from the Manchester + Glasgow Commonwealth games.
Premier league investments. Lottery funding.
British Cycling's 175,000 members paying big membership fees etc...
Basically we've invested. The medals are the result.
Yes that's it exactly. To be fair a lot of Irish olympians have gone over and trained in the UK as well and that has helped with a lot of PB's. A top 10 in a diving event, silver in sailing and rowing. Only .002 of a second off a bronze in the 400m final and more.
Obviously you need the individual talent as the starting point but the commitment of over £350m is stagering when there have been cuts all over the shop to social services etc. The medal tally will justify the spend.
bizzaro
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£113 million spent in Glasgow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Arena_and_Sir_Chris_Hoy_Velodrome
£9 billion spent in London
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venues_of_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_and_Paralympics
In 2000's
approx £200 million in Manchester
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18983577
The list goes on...
NONE of this existed in 1996 or before and the GB facilities were second rate.
Its Everton's turn to build facilities for the city of Liverpool now as well.
Not an athletics track but certainly a stadium that could host rugby and similar events that will be in an iconic dockside location.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Arena_and_Sir_Chris_Hoy_Velodrome
£9 billion spent in London
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venues_of_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_and_Paralympics
In 2000's
approx £200 million in Manchester
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18983577
The list goes on...
NONE of this existed in 1996 or before and the GB facilities were second rate.
Its Everton's turn to build facilities for the city of Liverpool now as well.
Not an athletics track but certainly a stadium that could host rugby and similar events that will be in an iconic dockside location.
Erm... I think she never done fencing and show jumping, shooting and quaffs of brandy while beating tramps to death with golden canes.
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