On 04/08/2012 17:21, John Rumm wrote:
On 04/08/2012 09:20, brass monkey wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Andy Cap wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Andy Cap wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Andy Cap wrote

I think it's rather sad that approx 50 % of our medals are won by
Public school attendees.

Why ?

Because the vast majority of kids don't get the same opportunity.

They don't with everything else like their parent's attitude either.

So what.

Because any decent society wants the best for ALL kids, not just the
rich
ones.

Pity no one has ever been able to work out how to achieve that,
and won't ever be able to do that anyway on genetics alone.

If they did, we'd do a lot better still.

Who cares about stupid **** like that ? Only fools.

So physical well-being doesn't matter ?

The olympics ain't about physical well being.

That why we're getting more unhealthy after years of improvement.

Wrong. Not only aren't we getting more unhealthy, the problem
when we aren't is due to obesity, not because not enough are
actually stupid enough to bother with stuff like the olympics.

I agree that sport has too higher profile in respect to other
achievements, i.e. engineering,

Anything else in fact.

but that doesn't make it stupid.

Giving a damn about how many medals each country gets certainly is.

Giving awards like Sir and Lord for getting a Gold medal IS ridiculous,

And so is getting a medal in the first place.

the medal should suffice.

It is in fact completely stupid.

Pffffffft, that's cos the ozzies are doing poorly.

I just noticed they had a chance of a bronze in the cycling... so they
are not all like wodders...

(mind you, the UK girls pursuit team have just broken five world records
in five consecutive rides ;-)


I have no idea what a girls pursuit team does, and I suspect I am not alone