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Strange how these other countries shout from the rooftops when they win these events and then say our athletes need to learn from them and then when we have learned and improved from better coaching methods , sports science etc , etc then they have and lead the world in many of these events they then accuse us of cheating basically.:rolleyes:

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What a bunch of moaning minnies. My advice to the rest of the World is to train harder, eat better, upgrade your equipment, look after your athletes and stfu.

Nothing worse than bad losers. We are small islands that have given the World medical and scientific advances, innovation in engineering and the very essence of fair play.

We win because we work at it and don't bellyache when others are better. The continentals are smarting for political reasons but the Australians ought to know better.

Get over it.

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Gold and silver by the Brownlee brothers in the triathlon.:)

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Ha! Best possible reply to bad losers :D

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You'd expect it from foreign media, they've got papers to sell like everyone else bit harsh of other athletes questioning our integrity though, I don't remember any brits questioning the aussie cycling team when they were dominant at the turn of the century.

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That's the key, every time they think they're catching up we revel new innovations that leave them back at the drawing board scratching their heads. Cycling is pretty straightforward you get out (medals) what you put in (cash)

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Team GB is very canny with its cash. They spend it so that it bears fruit right where most people will see it (the olympics). If we won world cycling titles every year but lost the olympics there would be howls of complaint about the amount of money spent on it. But by allowing those of us who indirectly fund it to bask in their reflected glory every four years, they secure their funding stream.

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Spot on both.

Also, funding and a nice shiny gong ought to be enough reward for being good at playing games; I don't see why winning medals should qualify you for national honours. It seems like everyone and his father is a 'Sir' these days. It has a demeaning effect.

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Usain Bolt nets a hat trick of 100m and 200m golds going back to 2008. Assuming he gets the team relay then he'll net triple gold medals for the third time in a row.

Astonishing though. An absolute phenom of a sprinter, unbeatable. By a massive margin the greatest sprinter ever seen. Its never even close, the guy destroys the field every time.

I doubt the sprinting events will ever reach these heights again soon. He'll surely see out the relay and then the curtains close on an epic guy in his final Olympics.

In Tokyo for the first time in 12 years we'll see new gold medalists for the 100m and 200m races. No doubt plenty of sprinters will be overjoyed to know we may have an open race rather than a foregone conclusion before its started. I mean at the minute its more a game of who can get the closest to Bolt.

Had the ridiculous thought of imagining Bolt on PEDs. I get the impression an 88mph back to the future scenario could occur.

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On the contrary, the Knights of sport and stage are the ones whose endeavours most effectively bring the world's attention to the UK. The honours system has consistently recognised this over many years.

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But they get their nice shiny medal or statuette or cup or whatever to evidence their astounding achievement; surely that galvanises the world's attention?

We pay for a monarch to do the stuff above and beyond that otherwise why bother keeping them?

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Saw article today Bolt close to being fastest possible.

Statistician claiming that Bolt is close to the maximum speed a human can attain. And similar is true at 400m. This would mean without some "enhancements" or some unexpected improvement there won't be many more records broken at 100m and 400m, maybe once more and that's it. Bit like if some archer got 720 in the ranking shoot. That's the maximum, no-one can beat it.

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I remember American Bob Beamon establishing a long jump record that, at the time, was said to have ruined the event because it could never be beaten. Over 29 feet with the competition nowhere in sight. It took nearly 23 years but Beamon's record was taken by Mike Powell.

Beamon was called a human kangeroo but eventually even his achievement was surpassed. Usain is a slow starter after all :D

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Paralympics set to flop massively as Brazil 'runs out of money'

Shambles. Still struggle to believe why a country full of corruption and poverty was given an event to spend billions on 2 years after a world cup.

88% of tickets are still on sale.

Total *********. Spend a fortune on a few weeks of glitter that a hefty amount of the population can't afford to attend. Only to be left with 10 white elephants at the end of it to nobodies benefit.

Sure you could argue our own money was better spent elsewhere but we haven't housed millions in people in what are essentially garden sheds more commonly known as slums.

Best question yet though is the one already being thrown around. What happened to the pledged money? We know the answer though. Its Brazil, someone's back pocket is a whole lot fatter.

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Well done to Nick Skelton on becoming the UK's second oldest ever Olympic gold medal winner. :clap: :clap:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36691138

And a equally sincere well done to the womens hockey team for showing our vastly overpaid prima donna footballers how to handle a penalty shoot out.

:clap:

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Which is a great shame :(.

But I'm trying to stay optimistic about Rio 2016 probably because our mob have done well and because even in mid winter it's a great looking location.
Besides, the papers reckon the end of the world is nigh again :)