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Congratulations must be in order to the British Olympic team for such a great result in Rio, especially coming second in the overall table behind the USA and beating the likes of China into that position, well done Team GB.

Horus wrote:Congratulations must be in order to the British Olympic team for such a great result in Rio, especially coming second in the overall table behind the USA and beating the likes of China into that position, well done Team GB.

And with a population only 5% of China's !!

Fantastic achievement

I was going to add that we also came in front of Russia, but of course some would say “Ah well Russia did not have a full team”. Although you could say that they did not have a full team because they were caught cheating and it just shows that on a level playing field we can do very well for such a small country. To be fair we will have lost a few good Olympians before the next games in Tokyo, Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah etc. but there are many others coming through the ranks who will hopefully be as good as the ones we lose. It just goes to show that when a country (with the help of National Lottery money) puts enough resources into certain sports we can still excel in them.

Well it's a lot better than having a proper job I suppose....

Nice little touch by British Airways, the jumbo jet carrying Team GB back home from Rio had a gold painted nose and the name Victoria changed to read ‘Victor’ ia, nice one BA.

Horus wrote:Nice little touch by British Airways, the jumbo jet carrying Team GB back home from Rio had a gold painted nose and the name Victoria changed to read ‘Victor’ ia, nice one BA.

They can afford to do that but not send any planes our way. Wonder how much it costs to spray paint a jumbo?

Dusak wrote:

Horus wrote:Nice little touch by British Airways, the jumbo jet carrying Team GB back home from Rio had a gold painted nose and the name Victoria changed to read ‘Victor’ ia, nice one BA.

They can afford to do that but not send any planes our way. Wonder how much it costs to spray paint a jumbo?

Quite a bit I would imagine, although they did only paint the nose bit gold.