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Originally Posted by denphone
Its not a negative at all as the fact remains that our Olympians know how to win wherever our international footballers don't and if they could learn from our Olympians in quite a few different facets then they would do a awful lot better.
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It's a pointless comparison. Football is far better funded across the world, it's far more competitive across the world. If Cycling was as popular as football and better funded in all those nations then we probably wouldn't be dominating it as much as we are. We've been very smart in how we target our investment and time when it comes to the Olympics.
We're doing great at the Olympics and that itself is an achievement. We don't need to use it to have a go at footballers. It's turning something optimistic and cheerful into something pessimistic and cynical. Footballers are the punching bag the UK population never gets tired of hitting.
We're not the best in the world at football, we may well be a cycling. Let's celebrate that.