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Brexit voters claim credit for UK Olympic games success

He does. Somehow he wants to continuously show the world that the EU is good and the Anglo-Saxon method is bad. With few exceptions, that is the root of most everything he writes.

Either that or bashing the US. Which appears again in this post.
 
~................Enjoying my retirement, but do drop in on occasion to see what is being said here. PetmeEU is still full of **** I see. :lamo

Have a nice day everyone. :2wave:
.......and what happened to
~.................... I am terminating my membership of this forum...................~
???

:lamo:lamo
 
I did terminate it. As far as I am concerned, I am no-longer A member. Never even implied that I would not visit from time-to-time. :mrgreen:
If you had terminated you wouldn't be able to visit at all but never mind getting hung up on technicalities.

Enjoy your retirement.

Last time round you sounded as thought you direly need it. :mrgreen:
 
And? more like.. so what? They made up their own rankings.. big wupti wup. Not the first and not the last... saw one ranking per capita.. saw another ranking on Scandinavian countries only..

And that would have to include your own thread. What, you do not like it when it boomerangs? :mrgreen:

Got to go. Just thought I would check in for predictable responses from you and Chagos. :roll:

going to bed. Night all. and have a nice day. :2wave:
 
And that would have to include your own thread. What, you do not like it when it boomerangs? :mrgreen:
The only thing that really boomerangs appears to be you, most every time you post something with irrelevant links.

The source cited (by both the Express rag and yourself) has absolutely no official capacity (it's a bloody advertising agency ferchrissake) and the Express rag headline of the "EU puts itself................" is a load of bumpf (an outright lie, in fact).
Got to go. Just thought I would check in for predictable responses from you and Chagos. :roll:
Well, where I'm concerned you can count on the rubbish that you present being debunked every time you present it.

going to bed.
about time too seeing how trolling must be pretty tiring.
 
Indeed, utterly stupid especially because it seriously has to do with the last olympic games having been held in London.

I think it has more to do with investment in élite sport from the National Lottery Fund. I think British sports fans should enjoy it while it lasts because governmental support for grass roots and school sports has been viciously cut in recent years. That short-sightedness will show itself in 4-12 years time when there will not be the pool of raw talent to coach through to Olympic standard. I guess administrators believe that London and Rio success will make up for the sell-off of facilities and the lack of basic instruction.

Never the less, I've been enjoying watching some of the terrific performances from Team GB - especially enjoyed seeing Nicola Adams defend her boxing gold.
 
I think it has more to do with investment in élite sport from the National Lottery Fund. I think British sports fans should enjoy it while it lasts because governmental support for grass roots and school sports has been viciously cut in recent years. That short-sightedness will show itself in 4-12 years time when there will not be the pool of raw talent to coach through to Olympic standard. I guess administrators believe that London and Rio success will make up for the sell-off of facilities and the lack of basic instruction.

Never the less, I've been enjoying watching some of the terrific performances from Team GB - especially enjoyed seeing Nicola Adams defend her boxing gold.

I agree, the money surely helped but nothing make people more full of enthusiasm for their country as an olympic games. Usually host countries will see a big bump in medal totals just prior and 3 or 4 olympic games after their own games. But I do agree, investment has to be made in grass roots sport (for the masses), sports clubs, facilities and sport organizations in a country to keep up the good work because from the base, the grass roots will further the goals and the achievements of athletes just getting started as an 8 year old 100 meter runner.

For example, in sports like hockey (field) the Netherlands is one of the best countries generally in the world. That is not because we win medals but because at a grass roots level a lot of young boys and girls play field hockey.

The same with speed skating, masses of people skate. In some parts of the country you will be hard pressed to find families who do not own skates.

Grass roots investment is what will make future successes possible IMO.
 
I think it has more to do with investment in élite sport from the National Lottery Fund. I think British sports fans should enjoy it while it lasts because governmental support for grass roots and school sports has been viciously cut in recent years. That short-sightedness will show itself in 4-12 years time when there will not be the pool of raw talent to coach through to Olympic standard. I guess administrators believe that London and Rio success will make up for the sell-off of facilities and the lack of basic instruction.

Never the less, I've been enjoying watching some of the terrific performances from Team GB - especially enjoyed seeing Nicola Adams defend her boxing gold.

I thought that the lottery money went to grass roots sports and "elite" sports?

Money is key, but so is grassroots. Without popularity among people, then the sport goes no where... regardless of how much money there is.
 
I thought that the lottery money went to grass roots sports and "elite" sports?

Money is key, but so is grassroots. Without popularity among people, then the sport goes no where... regardless of how much money there is.

Lottery money is spent through 12 different bodies from the Sports UK body whose focus is élite sport for Olympics and Paralympics through 4 different Arts Councils, the Heritage Council and finally at least 4 different grassroots development bodies in each of the countries of the UK.
 
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