Have I been watching too much Saturday night TV or would an X-factor for the 2012 Olympics not get you excited?

Ditch the wannabes and make a show which might actually create a star who will be remembered in the record books for more than two months and in an industry which would inspire more viewers to do the same.

Sporting Giants was a specific campaign to recruit tall athletes into the British handball, volleyball and women's rowing teams.

It received 4,800 applicants and handball is the first of the sports to mark the second round this weekend in Nottingham as 150 hopefuls test their skills for a chance of making it to the next stage.

I don't know about you but I'm eager to see how they get on. Not because I've ever taken an interest in handball until now, but because I really wish someone ends up on the team in 2012. It's doubtful they will win a medal, but what a great story.

Some lanky bloke, who used to be half decent at basketball, sees Steve Redgrave on the telly, applies, does the training for the next five years and somehow ends up competing in the biggest sporting event this country will witness. That's what you call a dream.

But would it work for other sports? Make it targeted enough and could it help solve the problem with athletics? What about all those lads lured into the goldmine that is football but end up on the scrapheap?

Give them, and others, a chance to prove themselves again and who knows where they might end up?

Have a read of this and let me know what you think?