Sports Editors Take Note!

I haven’t had a good old rant for a long time, but with the upcoming rugby world cup and yet another football competition that England are more than likely not going to win there have been a number of articles in the press recently which have made my blood boil!

I barely read the sports sections of newspapers as I hate football with a passion that could rival the most dedicated supporter. I have been reading the sport's pages recently to catch up on the World Athletics Championships, and when I managed to find the results hidden behind the usual 100 pages of football & I discovered the latest trend- in depth discussions about how the rugby union team, cricket and the football teams aren’t on good form so therefore England has nothing sporting to look forward to, we are pants at everything blah blah blah…

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What a negative stance considering this summer Great Britain has won a number of world class medals in a wide range of sports, for example:
• Para-cycling: 13 gold medals at the recent World Champs
• Sailing: 5 gold medals in the most recent world class event
• Rowing: 2 gold medals in the recent world championships
• Rowing: the Paralympics hopefuls won gold and silver medals at their recent world class event!
I found these results after a 2 minute search on the internet, so surely at this time when the high profile sports aren’t doing so well, rather than writing off the nation as a sporting champion we should be embracing these minor sports where we are, in fact, on top of the world …we are county rich in sporting talent, a fact that often goes unnoticed, overshadowed by our three favourite sports. I’m not naïve enough to think that these will ever take over football, rugby and cricket as the nation’s favourite sports, but rather than writing everybody off maybe newspapers should be balancing their stories with a little bit of our national success stories!

ahhhh, rant over-it's good to be back

Ruth