...fear of the consequences that failed to materialize. It’ll turn out to be the best thing that’s happened in decades.
Mr Ordinary
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It’s not that the Brits couldn’t put together a world class Basketball program. It’s that they wouldn’t, it isn’t a sport with any national interest in the UK. It would be like the US funding a $100 million cricket program.
Actually the reason UK cycling is successful is due to its own success. The better the sport performs the more funding it gets. You don’t get the medals, you won’t get the funding. It’s harsh but it works.
All bar one? Katy Marchant, Laura Trott, Jason Kenny, Callum Skinner, Mark Cavendish and Becky James(x2) all won individual medals.
They did, although they are all bar one either in team events or mutli eventing so it’s not that unusual that so many of them won a medal.
They went out to schools across the country and did ability tests with thousands of kids and then got the kids who showed the aptitude needed into the program (they did it for a lot of sports actually in the run up to 2012). Katy Marchant was a hepthalete who Jess Ennis’ coach saw doing the stationary bike work and…
Should also be noted they spent $32m a year on GB cycling where the USA spends $1m. The cycles to the Olympics make perfect sense because the public don’t care about Rainbow jerseys, they want to win things in the Olympics and if you don’t your funding is cut.
UK cycling decided a long time ago that the olympics were where they wanted to focus so work on that 4 year cycle so that that’s when they hit peak performance. In between the UK is more interested in road cycling TBH and the velodrome isn’t something that gets attention in the intervening years. Which is a shame as I…
That’s fairly unlikely, Britain was a fortress defended by a more powerful Navy. The only thing that the US could have done to let the Germans win would have been to embargo trade to the UK and it’s allies. And given just quite how much the US profiteered off of it’s Allies at the time that wasn’t likely to happen.
Surely you misspelled the Soviet Union?
Germans talking shit to Brits and winning? Third time’s a charm.
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To those saddened by the lack of colourful British swear words in the video, I offer this:
Donks are ridiculous, Bro-dozers are ridiculous, Ariel Atoms are awsome.
While I do adore the Eagle I find the XJ13 to be the prettiest Jag... in the world.
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Still not the worst goalkeeping blunder ever...
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Not for the first time, and won’t be the last.
Most people who don’t drive Fords know that you don’t have to do that because shifting into reverse while the gears are spinning doesn’t hurt anything. They’re straight cut and you’re not gonna wear them out.
I drove the entire time and rightfully claimed the master bedroom as my own.