Originally Posted by
the leader
It's Team England and we all know it. £375 million funding for 366 elite athletes. Money and preparation won the day not talent. Clive Woodward actually said "Good play by England, sorry, Team GB" during the women's rugby 7s.
The Guardianista are already preparing attacks on BREXIT for any fall off in the next Olympics when the reality is that it costs us too much, it's lost it's amateur ideals and the public purse/lottery money has to be put to better use.
Grass roots sports suffers (as told by Adam Peatys childhood coach) in order to allow the country to fund the very best.
The USA only put twice the amount we did into the pot (£790 million) yet they have 4 times the population.
Per capita the UK put more into the Olympics than anyone else, so we won more.
It's about money now. The Olympic ideal is dead when millionaires like Andy Murray and Justin Rose can tip up and have a beano.