Post by beverley61 on Feb 20, 2022 18:16:54 GMT
Yes it really is. I mean considering the population and the accessibility of sport and the fact that sports scholarships are not the norm, including the fact that if you're not doing GCSE Sports & Fitness etc. you won't be doing sport at school from age 13/14. Which effectively means you and your parents have to pay for it, it's surprising we do well at any Olympics.
I think we only have one or two Olympic standard skating rinks and no snow to speak of. Most of our free style and slope style entrants start out on skateboards and trampolines.
We do have a lot of marathon and long distance runners but there's no concerted effort to get them into cross country skiing. If there was we might do better in that too.
The toboggan competition things, was a wash out but then everyone agreed that as the Germans built the track and built their equipment to suit it, everyone else was pretty much knackered. Their investment was multiple millions.
So well done everyone, even making the qualifying standard is immense.
I think we only have one or two Olympic standard skating rinks and no snow to speak of. Most of our free style and slope style entrants start out on skateboards and trampolines.
We do have a lot of marathon and long distance runners but there's no concerted effort to get them into cross country skiing. If there was we might do better in that too.
The toboggan competition things, was a wash out but then everyone agreed that as the Germans built the track and built their equipment to suit it, everyone else was pretty much knackered. Their investment was multiple millions.
So well done everyone, even making the qualifying standard is immense.
Anymore to come?
