On Sunday night Joe Joyce secured the last British medal of the Games with silver in the men’s super-heavyweight boxing final, to end an astonishing 17 days of sport that saw Great Britain become the first country to improve on their host-Games haul. The public used to care deeply about China’s ranking in the medal table, but this year, people seem to care more about the individual stories of the athletes.
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“It’s outstanding, even sporting superpowers haven’t increased their performances, we are one of those now”.
Nicholls added: “There’s been success in breadth and depth, more sports (are winning medals) and more athletes than in London”.
As of the afternoon of Saturday (20 August), Team GB had won 63 medals, compared to the total of 65 that they won on home soil at London 2012. It’s spectacular in fact.
“If the Chinese delegation’s achievements should indeed decline at this year’s Rio Olympic games, it begs some serious thoughts on the part of China’s sports circle”, wrote Liu Ge, a state media commentator in the party-run Global Times.
“We’re making sporting history – 67 medals, almost 130 medallists across 19 sports compared to 17 in London”. I’ve nearly lost track of them.
Much of the Rio money went on the holding camp in Belo Horizonte – widely regarded to have been the best any team here enjoyed – and in finding solutions to Rio’s various accommodation and transport “challenges”.
‘And how’s it happened? “Though the lottery, vital resources have fuelled our success from Sydney right through to Rio”. Rio is the country’s second most successful Olympics ever, second only to London 1908 when Britain capitalised on home advantage to dominate with 146 medals. About two thirds of our strategic investment comes from the National Lottery.
Already they are trying to persuade football to rejoin the party, with talks planned with the FA.
‘When you see the delight on the face of Justin Rose when he won the gold medal in golf it shows what it all means.
“There are a few problems we can not overlook”. And now in Rio, they’re 2nd after 274 million pounds of investment.
GB also topped the rowing table, with three golds – one more than Germany and New Zealand – and third second in the gymnastics, behind the USA and Russian Federation.
“Rio seems to be missing the importance of Olympic awards ceremonies, which represent respect for the athletes and where they are from”, he said. It would be fantastic to have them on board in Tokyo’.
“I started out as a child and then was still diving as an adolescent and then into adulthood and it really taught me a lot of things about life”, she said.
“But we want to sustain success and we will maintain momentum now from Rio, onto Tokyo, in order to do that”.
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“We do it to make Britain an active, proud and happy nation, and that is why the government adds to the pot with exchequer funding”.
