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Originally Posted by Chris
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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On the contrary we all recognise exactly what the honours system is about and it isn't to reward sportsmen or actors, it's to reward cronies for keeping their mouths shut or doing dirty deeds, the odd sop to an athlete is merely to distract the public from that imo.
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Originally Posted by martyh
No because the Lottery was introduced exactly for the development of sports and other non tax funded activities .If your suggesting that lottery funds should be diverted to the NHS or used to prop up pensions then i for one could not disagree more strongly
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Its interesting that the lottery can provide support to the tune of 3/4 billion for elite athletes whilst at the same time 300 swimming pools have shut in the same time frame.
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
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. |
Or a regression rather than improvement
http://metro.co.uk/2009/10/19/ancien...egger-3421373/