[jack bauer]

2012 GB hosted the London olympics and we were told how the games would bring a legacy for sport in the country. As this is a debating forum thought it would be an interesting subject to debate. What sparked my thought tonight is watching on record today's T20 match on iplayer, it opened with a statement that England Cricket is in the best place it has ever been... arguably so is english football as we've begun to reach the latter stages of tournaments recently, our women's team are top draw and we've seen some progress in the tennis. I don't follow loadsa sports but a decade and a bit on is this the generation that has benefitted from that "investment".

Flipside the olympics are represented by GB not England so has the "investment" been felt the same in Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland?

look forward to reading people's thoughts on this one.

[hilly81]

jack bauer, on 01 September 2023 - 09:29 PM, said:

2012 GB hosted the London olympics and we were told how the games would bring a legacy for sport in the country. As this is a debating forum thought it would be an interesting subject to debate. What sparked my thought tonight is watching on record today's T20 match on iplayer, it opened with a statement that England Cricket is in the best place it has ever been... arguably so is english football as we've begun to reach the latter stages of tournaments recently, our women's team are top draw and we've seen some progress in the tennis. I don't follow loadsa sports but a decade and a bit on is this the generation that has benefitted from that "investment".

Flipside the olympics are represented by GB not England so has the "investment" been felt the same in Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland?

look forward to reading people's thoughts on this one.

I think a multitude of sports have had really good runs since 2012. GB has had some very dominant cyclists, swimmers etc. From an athletics point of view, the medal haul at last weeks World Championships was the joint best ever. We’re consistently getting athletes into finals and on to podiums. You look at the strength and depth of GB middle distance running and we are right up there. We have some very talented sprinters and consistently good relay teams. We lack a real dominant marathon runner but that distance is so overwhelmingly dominated by the Africans, it would be a real tough nut to crack. That’s not to say we don’t have good runners at that distance. Phil Sessemann’s 2:10 and 8th place at London this year was incredible.

I think GB sport is in a great place personally.

[calvin plummers socks]

jack bauer, on 01 September 2023 - 09:29 PM, said:

2012 GB hosted the London olympics and we were told how the games would bring a legacy for sport in the country. As this is a debating forum thought it would be an interesting subject to debate. What sparked my thought tonight is watching on record today's T20 match on iplayer, it opened with a statement that England Cricket is in the best place it has ever been... arguably so is english football as we've begun to reach the latter stages of tournaments recently, our women's team are top draw and we've seen some progress in the tennis. I don't follow loadsa sports but a decade and a bit on is this the generation that has benefitted from that "investment".

Flipside the olympics are represented by GB not England so has the "investment" been felt the same in Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland?

look forward to reading people's thoughts on this one.

Football and cricket are the 2 sports that wouldn’t benefit from the legacy. The FA and ECB don’t get central funding as such.

[Mr Mercury]

hilly81, on 02 September 2023 - 10:44 AM, said:

I think a multitude of sports have had really good runs since 2012. GB has had some very dominant cyclists, swimmers etc. From an athletics point of view, the medal haul at last weeks World Championships was the joint best ever. We’re consistently getting athletes into finals and on to podiums. You look at the strength and depth of GB middle distance running and we are right up there. We have some very talented sprinters and consistently good relay teams. We lack a real dominant marathon runner but that distance is so overwhelmingly dominated by the Africans, it would be a real tough nut to crack. That’s not to say we don’t have good runners at that distance. Phil Sessemann’s 2:10 and 8th place at London this year was incredible.

I think GB sport is in a great place personally.

The dominant swimmers and cyclists who all seem to be diagnosed asthmatics, hence allowed to take inhalers etc, once they enter team GB?

[calvin plummers socks]

jack bauer, on 01 September 2023 - 09:29 PM, said:

2012 GB hosted the London olympics and we were told how the games would bring a legacy for sport in the country. As this is a debating forum thought it would be an interesting subject to debate. What sparked my thought tonight is watching on record today's T20 match on iplayer, it opened with a statement that England Cricket is in the best place it has ever been... arguably so is english football as we've begun to reach the latter stages of tournaments recently, our women's team are top draw and we've seen some progress in the tennis. I don't follow loadsa sports but a decade and a bit on is this the generation that has benefitted from that "investment".

Flipside the olympics are represented by GB not England so has the "investment" been felt the same in Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland?

look forward to reading people's thoughts on this one.

Football and cricket are the 2 sports that wouldn’t benefit from the legacy. The FA and ECB don’t get central funding as such.

[calvin plummers socks]

Mr Mercury, on 02 September 2023 - 12:07 PM, said:

The dominant swimmers and cyclists who all seem to be diagnosed asthmatics, hence allowed to take inhalers etc, once they enter team GB?

Evidence of this?

[Mr Mercury]

calvin plummers socks, on 02 September 2023 - 01:44 PM, said:

Evidence of this?

Loads and loads I just can’t be bothered to find it at this moment

[calvin plummers socks]

The main ‘priority’ sports who benefitted from the 2012 legacy and particularly the funding (swimming, cycling, track and field, basketball) have all had awful legacy figures in the last 10 years with crisis times at all of those sports.
Swimming has poached the CEO from British Triathlon to sort out the sh^t show there. The athletics success was mainly nothing to do with lottery investment - mainly overseas coaching etc.
Cycling since the Brailsford scandal has started to improve.

[Manfred Archie Mac Gerbil]

calvin plummers socks said:

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Football and cricket are the 2 sports that wouldn't benefit from the legacy. The FA and ECB don't get central funding as such.

West Ham Utd did well out of it.

They got an Olympic size stadium on the cheap and a European trophy.

[hilly81]

Mr Mercury, on 02 September 2023 - 12:07 PM, said:

The dominant swimmers and cyclists who all seem to be diagnosed asthmatics, hence allowed to take inhalers etc, once they enter team GB?

I don't follow either sport closely at all so I have no idea to be honest.