Quote Originally Posted by Whisperer View Post
Professional Tennis should not be an Olympic sport.....I would have chosen Nicola Adams because she is a true Amateur which is what the Olympics was all about not so long back.
How is boxing full time and being enabled to via Lottery funding (she's paid a wage every week) make her an amateur? Britain's massively increased haul of Olympic medals this century was largely down to Lottery dough employing competitors, dieticians, nutritionalists, sports psychologists and coaches.