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Listed below are comments made by 2012legacyman between Monday, 25th August 2008 and Tuesday, 26th August 2008.

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How to build on the Great Haul of China 1:28pm on 26 Aug 2008 In reply to comment 41

Its not about getting hands on your money.

Success breeds success and perhaps we will be able to kids off street corners and into Boxing, running, cycling etc.

Also a winning attitude stays with you for life and you try harder at other areas such as academia.

Lets look what happened to Rugby Union. Clive Woodward wanted to take it forward, the top brass wanted to save money and the result was/is!!

The authorities are doing a good job and we need to focus on the task in hand success at 2012 and building grass root facilities.

Bring back contact sports in schools and get proper coaches in for elite training even on a local level (1 coach can do 10 sessions per week say)

The more success and facilities we have the better, there are many health, social and monetry benefits to having a fit, successful and healthy nation.
How to build on the Great Haul of China 10:22am on 25 Aug 2008
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Spain spent a considerable amount of money for Barcelona and also run the same system as China and our rowers and cyclists.

Its interesting that the rowers started all this years ago and the coach is not British and extremely ruthless in his decision making. Seems to have worked.
How to build on the Great Haul of China 10:19am on 25 Aug 2008 I think that we need to look at what was successful and replicate it:

The Cyclists and Rowers all train together in Elite set ups and that has proven extremely successful (in the same way that Success breeds success at Man Utd)

As a first move I would like to see this system taken into Athletics (Sheffield perhaps)

Secondly I would like to see the forming of a competitive Collegiate system similar to that run by the US, this has proven to be the bedrock of their success and I am sure that if Universities are incentivised enough that this could happen.

Thirdly, I would like to see the Olympic site in Stratford become the QE2 National University of Sport, surely the best Olympic legacy that we can leave is to give the country an Olympic high every four years.

We will be letting our children and sports people down if we do not do this.

For too long we have had the talent, please, please, please lets give these world beaters the sporting infrastructure they need to keep on performing for our country.

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