http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html en-gb 30 Fri 08 Jan 2010 13:17:27 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html?page=15#comment3 So a particular sport doesn't do as well as someone might have expected ? the answer , give them less funding ? that makes real sense , they don't get enough now! Shooters who represent their country in the domestic home internationals get a funding of £150 , thats to buy their uniform , clothing , hotels , Flights , the whole damn thing and yet when we do well they all come out of the woodwork to claim the victory for themselves , these people should be ashamed to even think of reducing funding .The money wasted for the shooting venue for 2012 is a disgrace £20 mill. for a venue that will cost another £8 mill. to demolish , so much for "a legacy for sport " Mon 18 Aug 2008 13:18:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html?page=10#comment2 Back when I was shooting, most archers would have been driven mad by the terrible deafening interludes of Muzak that started up as soon as they'd shot. One of the more annoying features about this year's games I think.There is something wrong in the archery world, and it's mainly about lack of access to facilities. that's not the fault of the sport, it's the suspicion that Local Authorities have about allowing a 'shooting' event.I remember some years back when a London local councilor on a recreation committee looked at a application from an archery club to continue using local grounds. Her suggestion was that she didn't see why they shouldn't switch over to arrows with the little rubber suckers on the end ;) Sun 17 Aug 2008 09:58:04 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html?page=5#comment1 Terrible set of results for Team GB's archers. I would have thought that it would have been a sport we could target (excuse the pun) for success in 2012 - after all how hard is it to visit a school, set up a couple of targets and let the kids have a go? Also the comments suggest that the archery team aren't following the example of the cycling mob - everything centres around the athlete. Sat 16 Aug 2008 21:08:02 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/british_medals_dry_up_as_arche.html?page=0#comment0 Well said Gordon! It is indeed a sport where you are basically in competition against yourself and indeed I think that there were some coaching issues out in Beijing whether it was Suk's coaching style or something else I don't know as I wasn't there but it was clear from the whole teams performance that something was getting to them as even Alison was performing well under par (scuse the term) Maybe it was the lack of crowd control at the stadium....British archers are not use to that sort of poor behaviour as any FITA or GNAS judge would have had severe words with anyone making those kinds of distracting noises on purpose and can on occasions halt the competition untill relative peace can be restored. Anyway I just really hope that the big wigs in charge of finance get out of this poor habit of piling on the pressure to do well on the olympians and let them get on with the jobs at hand....I'm sure the USA and CHINA don't have the same penny pinching mentality to sport as we do hence why they win so very many more medals than we do. So finally let's encourage the Paralympic archery team to bring us back some medals as don't forget they still have their competition to come! YAAY!! Fri 15 Aug 2008 20:37:24 GMT+1