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Originally Posted by danielf
I think that's a little misleading. As far as I know, the all-time medal table is heavily biased towards the period before WW2. Back then fewer nations competed, and the UK was still a world power, which led to GB winning a disproportionate number of medals. This 'evened out' after WW2.
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In our most successful Olympics we allowed anyone from the Empire to compete for us, most were British or Irish admittedly but at least one was South African and those games went on for six months...
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Originally Posted by martyh
Who's changed their mind then ?,out of the nay sayers who think that the Olympics is a huge waste of money who ,if any, have changed their mind and now thinks that there is some benefit ?
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In terms of value for money they're right, it was a complete waste of cash
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Originally Posted by Damien
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I miss it...
