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Post by AllyF on Aug 12, 2024 14:27:19 GMT
Yes. Being 3rd in the world isn,t something to sniff about when you look at sprint finals a point of a second can separate 3 runners. I,d be quite happy being 3rd best in the world at anything. I don't think medalling of any colour is to be sneered at (although I guess I have above a little bit but that was mainly because I don't like British arrogance as much as anything). Not medalling though in extremely highly funded sports I don't think is particularly acceptable. The BBC reporting that our medals in the fighting sports cost £12m per gong this time around and that they'll face some defunding. Seems fair enough to me. Our boxers went out so early I didn't really see them but believe some were on the wrong end of bad judging potentially. Having said that seeing as boxing as a sport regularly charges £25 to watch top fights, surely some of that can filter down to grassroots as well.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 12, 2024 16:59:38 GMT
Seems like punishing the next generation for the current one failing, does cutting the funding
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Post by desmond on Aug 12, 2024 17:09:34 GMT
Seems like punishing the next generation for the current one failing, does cutting the funding Maybe but there’s only so much money to go around if the sports aren’t self funding.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 12, 2024 17:13:22 GMT
Seems like punishing the next generation for the current one failing, does cutting the funding Maybe but there’s only so much money to go around if the sports aren’t self funding. This is true, probably impossible to come up with a fair way of assessing future prospects too, seems a bit crude though
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Post by timberwolf on Aug 13, 2024 7:58:39 GMT
Seems like punishing the next generation for the current one failing, does cutting the funding Maybe but there’s only so much money to go around if the sports aren’t self funding. Fine if its looked after at grass roots level. Like any sport you can think of there are more who compete at that level than at the top and thats before kids are taken into consideration.
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Post by desmond on Aug 19, 2024 9:55:46 GMT
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Post by dunkerrrrr on Aug 19, 2024 10:28:47 GMT
Matthew Richardson announces he’s moving back to the UK, from Aus, and will be racing for Team GB track cycling.
Massive that, second fastest track cyclist in the world, reckon we’ll be a force on the track in LA.
Not counting any of the up and coming (and f*cking rapid might I add) youth, our sprint team will likely be made up of Carlin, Richardson and Lowe. Can’t help but think with Archibald in form that we will continue to be annoyingly good on the track over the next 4-8 years.
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Post by timberwolf on Aug 19, 2024 10:29:32 GMT
For me its cricket invented for people who do not like that game.
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Post by AllyF on Aug 19, 2024 11:19:08 GMT
The only thing I've read on the Hundred is they thought possible Indian money may attract some of the better overseas players again. The Manchester Originals in particular looked like an average county eleven with obscure overseas players and a team for of journeymen and rookies. Not a huge fan of it but in fairness to Adam Zampa last night he said he chose to play in this competition rather than some T20 tournament in the USA like others which no one else cares about. The Hundred has been good for the women's game where they have attracted the top overseas talent.
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Post by desmond on Aug 19, 2024 11:22:34 GMT
The only thing I've read on the Hundred is they thought possible Indian money may attract some of the better overseas players again. The Manchester Originals in particular looked like an average county eleven with obscure overseas players and a team for of journeymen and rookies. Not a huge fan of it but in fairness to Adam Zampa last night he said he chose to play in this competition rather than some T20 tournament in the USA like others which no one else cares about. The Hundred has been good for the women's game where they have attracted the top overseas talent. Apparently if any new investors only become minority stakeholders they will still have the right to rename a team.
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Post by orkneyhatter on Aug 19, 2024 13:21:13 GMT
Matthew Richardson announces he’s moving back to the UK, from Aus, and will be racing for Team GB track cycling. Massive that, second fastest track cyclist in the world, reckon we’ll be a force on the track in LA. Not counting any of the up and coming (and f*cking rapid might I add) youth, our sprint team will likely be made up of Carlin, Richardson and Lowe. Can’t help but think with Archibald in form that we will continue to be annoyingly good on the track over the next 4-8 years. I just wish these sportspeople would decide and stick to one country to represent. Some seem to just chop and change for convenience, sponsorship, or just because they have a better chance of getting into someone else's national team. I get that some people have dual nationality, were born abroad but lived the majority of their childhood in another country, but when it comes to "qualifying " for a country after x years, getting nationality of another country for sponsorship like it appears some of the "Bahrain" athletes may have done, it makes a mockery of the whole thing, especially when a person has already represented a nation previously. Surely its an honour to represent your country, why would you do that and then suddenly decide to represent another nation x years later?.
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Post by HTC on Aug 19, 2024 13:38:21 GMT
Matthew Richardson announces he’s moving back to the UK, from Aus, and will be racing for Team GB track cycling. Massive that, second fastest track cyclist in the world, reckon we’ll be a force on the track in LA. Not counting any of the up and coming (and f*cking rapid might I add) youth, our sprint team will likely be made up of Carlin, Richardson and Lowe. Can’t help but think with Archibald in form that we will continue to be annoyingly good on the track over the next 4-8 years. I just wish these sportspeople would decide and stick to one country to represent. Some seem to just chop and change for convenience, sponsorship, or just because they have a better chance of getting into someone else's national team. I get that some people have dual nationality, were born abroad but lived the majority of their childhood in another country, but when it comes to "qualifying " for a country after x years, getting nationality of another country for sponsorship like it appears some of the "Bahrain" athletes may have done, it makes a mockery of the whole thing, especially when a person has already represented a nation previously. Surely its an honour to represent your country, why would you do that and then suddenly decide to represent another nation x years later?. If you're from a poor family in Kenya / Ethiopia, and are offered £2 million to run for Bahrain / Qatar instead, it's not hard to see why some do it.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 19, 2024 13:42:14 GMT
Matthew Richardson announces he’s moving back to the UK, from Aus, and will be racing for Team GB track cycling. Massive that, second fastest track cyclist in the world, reckon we’ll be a force on the track in LA. Not counting any of the up and coming (and f*cking rapid might I add) youth, our sprint team will likely be made up of Carlin, Richardson and Lowe. Can’t help but think with Archibald in form that we will continue to be annoyingly good on the track over the next 4-8 years. I just wish these sportspeople would decide and stick to one country to represent. Some seem to just chop and change for convenience, sponsorship, or just because they have a better chance of getting into someone else's national team. I get that some people have dual nationality, were born abroad but lived the majority of their childhood in another country, but when it comes to "qualifying " for a country after x years, getting nationality of another country for sponsorship like it appears some of the "Bahrain" athletes may have done, it makes a mockery of the whole thing, especially when a person has already represented a nation previously. Surely its an honour to represent your country, why would you do that and then suddenly decide to represent another nation x years later?. The rewards for getting a medal as a representative of an Oil State might have something to do with it for somebody that way inclined. Joining Team GB with its notoriously stingy rewards package is a head scratcher, though. I can understand the skateboarding fella’s motivation because he’s an elder statesman of the sport, and it’s the Olympics dude. But for someone who’s supposedly a genuine medal contender, it’s a baffling choice. Unless based on the men’s track team’s underperformance, he reckons he’s got a better chance of being selected for us than them?
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Post by dunkerrrrr on Aug 19, 2024 17:27:10 GMT
Matthew Richardson announces he’s moving back to the UK, from Aus, and will be racing for Team GB track cycling. Massive that, second fastest track cyclist in the world, reckon we’ll be a force on the track in LA. Not counting any of the up and coming (and f*cking rapid might I add) youth, our sprint team will likely be made up of Carlin, Richardson and Lowe. Can’t help but think with Archibald in form that we will continue to be annoyingly good on the track over the next 4-8 years. I just wish these sportspeople would decide and stick to one country to represent. Some seem to just chop and change for convenience, sponsorship, or just because they have a better chance of getting into someone else's national team. I get that some people have dual nationality, were born abroad but lived the majority of their childhood in another country, but when it comes to "qualifying " for a country after x years, getting nationality of another country for sponsorship like it appears some of the "Bahrain" athletes may have done, it makes a mockery of the whole thing, especially when a person has already represented a nation previously. Surely its an honour to represent your country, why would you do that and then suddenly decide to represent another nation x years later?. Agree with that for certain athletes, especially where you see it in track and field loads, but I think he has good reason to move. He was born and lived in the uk until he was 9, then emigrated to Aus. His girlfriend is Welsh and tipped to be a massive track star over the next 8 years. So if they’re going to make a go of it, and he has dual nationality it makes perfect sense for him to move to the uk. Situations like this one where this type of rule makes sense and is the right thing to do.
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Post by dunkerrrrr on Aug 19, 2024 17:37:26 GMT
I just wish these sportspeople would decide and stick to one country to represent. Some seem to just chop and change for convenience, sponsorship, or just because they have a better chance of getting into someone else's national team. I get that some people have dual nationality, were born abroad but lived the majority of their childhood in another country, but when it comes to "qualifying " for a country after x years, getting nationality of another country for sponsorship like it appears some of the "Bahrain" athletes may have done, it makes a mockery of the whole thing, especially when a person has already represented a nation previously. Surely its an honour to represent your country, why would you do that and then suddenly decide to represent another nation x years later?. The rewards for getting a medal as a representative of an Oil State might have something to do with it for somebody that way inclined. Joining Team GB with its notoriously stingy rewards package is a head scratcher, though. I can understand the skateboarding fella’s motivation because he’s an elder statesman of the sport, and it’s the Olympics dude. But for someone who’s supposedly a genuine medal contender, it’s a baffling choice. Unless based on the men’s track team’s underperformance, he reckons he’s got a better chance of being selected for us than them? Wouldn’t say we under performed, we got three more medals than any other country with most of our team under 25. The likes of Lavreyson, Valente etc will be retiring soon with an impact on their countries performance similar to how losing Kenny, Trott, Clancy etc has had on ours. Reckon we’ll be well on top again come LA.
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