Worth every penny

Aye, at £310 millions per medal, an absolute bargain

And if they'd only spent half as much, the performances last night wouldn't have been as special.

No doubt at the conclusion we'll have Cameron claiming it's the tories' investment in sports that was responsible for TeamGB's success and to further incentivise young athletes for Rio 2016, Gove will announce a further round of cuts to schools sports funding.

Oh and Gideon will blame the triple-dip on the Olympics

Can't get too excited about these Games.
Twenty years ago you wouldn't have got the TV controls out of my hand. I'd have been watching blanket coverage.

Cynicism Rules OK!!!

Anyways, go on Luke my son.
Bring that boxing GOLD back to St Pauls in Hull.

Or St Paul's in Lowestoft, as they said in commentary on his first bout

Before his first bout on BBC Lineker said Scotlands Luke Campbell.


Not bad research for someone who was born in 1987, in Hull, England.

I felt a bit like that before the games started, but the achievements of the athletes have brought me round. Last night was just a wonderful, historic, sporting moment, and I'm glad I watched it unfold.

Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, Tory politician, Olympian, former Chair of the British Olympic Committee, Member of the European Olympic Committee and Chair of LOCOG, is now urging the Government to seize this opportunity to back British sports and invest in the next generation of state schools, asserting that the balance of public school educated medal winners is too high. [urlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9446407/Team-GB-chief-dominance-of-public-schools-is-unacceptable.html[/url

Being as he was a Member of Parliament in Thatchers government, nay, Sports Minister in Thatchers government - you remember, the government who gave permission for schools to sell off their playing fields - then thats where my irony meter exploded and I'm now trying to find somewhere to get it repaired.



PS - This 2km long rowing lake at Eton Dorney that we've all paid for - remind me again which school will be using it as their very own private facility after the Olympians have left ? [urlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8709978.stm[/url

To balance that out, though - albeit to a very small margin I suppose - it was after our solitary gold at the Olympics in Georgia that John Major decided to first redirect some Lottery money into funding sports. That began the snowball effect as we have subsequently improved our medal haul and performance in certain fields as well as gradually increased financial support of sports (including corporate sponsorship).

Has Cameron yet taken credit for the Gold medals Team GB has won yet ?

The sport has, by and large, been magnificent.

And yes, last night was superb – but let's not forget others, including the women's team pursuit, who won gold in the sixth world record they've set in six successive races.

Which reminds me: Laura Trott – Turnford Secondary School
Danielle King – Hamble Community Sports College
Joanna Rowsell – Nonsuch High School

Stuff that in your pipe, former Miniature for Sport.

I would add, however, that however fantastic this is, it does not detract from the attacks on local businesses, civil liberties and goodness knows what else, and the obscene groveling to the corporate elite.