Britain finished seventh in the medal table at Paris 2024, their lowest position in 20 years, despite matching their haul from London 2012
That is the £250m question that every athlete, sports administrator, coach and physio will play some part in answering over the next weeks and months.
Team GB were given two targets by the funding body UK Sport: first to achieve a minimum of 50 medals and then to finish top-five in the medals table., a former rower, did her best to do so. France are the home country, she pointed out, Japan are still enjoying an uptick three years on from the same, and Australia are due to host in eight years’ time . There were situational challenges too.“It’s a very different experience having the crowds back.
And what about the Dutch? Everywhere there was a Team GB medal hope, there also seemed to be an orange jersey lurking to take advantage of any slip-up. Femke Bol twice streaked past a British relay team on the final lap of the track, the Dutch four denieda piece of history by two tenths of a second and the Netherlands even outperformed Britain’s sailors, who remain the all-time leaders in terms of medals at sea.
Yes and no. The goals set by UK Sport are designed to ensure the British taxpayer is getting enough bang for their buck, so when Team GB fails to achieve them, that suggests they are not getting a good deal from the £245m spent on sports funding. But often“ have an impact when they go back home and into their communities to all parts of the country,” Grainger said.
“What we see is we normally see about a 30 per cent conversion of the medals into gold, and we haven’t seen that here,” Grainger said. “We’ve also got similar facilities for the sport that are based down on the Long Beach on the water, so rowing, marathon swimming, that kind of thing.”
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