[The_Great_One]

They try their hardest but their best is always miles behind everyone else. The peope who do well have natural ability and it's not through the training or they train in another country.

[Drewski]

Did someone say déja vu?



Or, alternatively, why are your threads so poor? You try your hardest but your best is always so much less imaginative than everyone else. The posters who do well have a natural writing style and ask interesting questions, not just rehashed versions of old questions hoping for more neg rep.

[Four Queue]

Give up man, seriously.

[1337camper]

need more black people in team gb

[The_Great_One]

White men can't sprint our last sprinter was linford Christie.

[PGtips]

Our sprinters always seem to not have the right attitude to succeed and reach their potential. We get quite a few young sprinters who win junior championships, but they never seem to be able to develop into a sub 10 second sprinter.

Dwain Chambers was our best 100m sprinter this season, that really shows how bad we are. Gemili looks like he's the real deal though, he's only 18 and has ran faster than young sprinters such as Blake did, when he was his age. Hopefully he can go sub 10 in a few years, as long as he doesn't go ultra with bodybuilding.

[Negaduck]

For a start, it's not.

[tammie123]

Stop complaining. We're 3rd in the medals table for gods sake!

[PGtips]

(Original post by tammie123)
Stop complaining. We're 3rd in the medals table for gods sake!

And we could be 2nd or 1st if we had a couple Usain Bolts!

[Copperknickers]

Because, we do not have enough Soviets or Africans. What we need to do is encourage an influx of people from Kazakhstan, Jamaica, and Ethiopia. The only reason we have won any medals in it so far is because of people like Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, who are from those ethnicities.

[codfatherh]

(Original post by Copperknickers)
Because, we do not have enough Soviets or Africans. What we need to do is encourage an influx of people from Kazakhstan, Jamaica, and Ethiopia. The only reason we have won any medals in it so far is because of people like Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, who are from those ethnicities.

No, just no. Did you watch any of the cycling? Thought not...

[goape]

(Original post by The_Great_One)
They try their hardest but their best is always miles behind everyone else. The peope who do well have natural ability and it's not through the training or they train in another country.

We're 3rd on the athletics medal table. That is not poor.

[ken2]

We are not poor, just okayish-good if that makes any sense.
We are poor in terms of money spent, over £500m, but the good thing is we are making excellent progress, just wait for 2016!

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my GT-I9100

[Converse Rocker]

(Original post by The_Great_One)
The peope who do well have natural ability and it's not through the training

Yep, Olympic standard with no training. Spot on son.

[Jack93o]

Because in athletics the competition is alot greater compared to the sports where we vulture our medals from. Access is alot easier than say rowing, sailing or even cycling (expensive bikes, all the bits of technology, circuits, coaching). So what you get is alot more top athletes fighting it out for the medals.

[nightmare91]

(Original post by Jack93o)
Because in athletics the competition is alot greater compared to the sports where we vulture our medals from. Access is alot easier than say rowing, sailing or even cycling (expensive bikes, all the bits of technology, circuits, coaching). So what you get is alot more top athletes fighting it out for the medals.

This. And most of the money the UK invested went into sport disciplines in which GB has always been good at, that is rowing, cycling etc.

[Copperknickers]

(Original post by codfatherh)
No, just no. Did you watch any of the cycling? Thought not...

Actually, I attended a couple of the cycling events, along with the athletics. Did you, on the other hand, actually read my post? At no point did I claim we did not win medals in cycling, but what does that have to do with athletics? Cycling is not a discipline of athletics.

[TRS-T]

Need. More. Black people.

[Ice Constricter]

Half of the people posting here don't even know what 'athletics' means. No, it doesn't include cycling or rowing. When people think of athletics during the olympics they think of track events.

[Fusion]

My guess is that naturally fast youngsters are more likely to try and break into professional football in their teens, also there hasn't been a popular inspiring British sprinter in a long while.