A lot of the money that went into cycling and bobsleigh etc went into the aerodynamics research that enabled fractions of a second to be shaved off. The individuals didn't get it. My hubby did quite a lot of 3D scanning of certain people in various poses on equipment. I will keep secret the one whose very tight suit split exposing a lot more than the average builder. He also did similar for F1 firms and a certain Italian motor bike manufacturer. There are huge teams just sorting out aerodynamics to gain just fractions of a second.
My four year old is obsessed with pylons at the moment. We spend a lot of time looking at pictures of pylons on Google images On the one hand you have the Pylon Appreciation Society with their Pylon of the Month feature on their website as well as seemingly thousands of photographers taking arty photos of the structures against the landscape. There's 55,237 photos of pylons on Getty images alone. On the other hand you have the NIMBYs fighting their worthy battles to try and rid the country of the visual blight of these ugly eyesores. They'd spend billions burying the wires and scrapping the towers if they could. Or the determined band of people who seem to want to spend their time and our money designing a more beautiful structure that will enhance the countryside with some over-designed pointlessness. In between I would bet there are millions of people who don't even notice they're there. I guess we're all different...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The lottery is a tax on the desperate. A person who has channelled the whole of their existence into a few minutes in which they might have gone higher, faster or longer should have done it at their own or commercial expense. I think it's a waste. What might they have achieved if they put their energy into a less selfish narcissistic pursuit? Sport should be your pastime not your raison d’etre
Maybe worth remembering that the National Lottery gives an identical amount to the arts that it gives to sport, and, that as many people probably object to that, as they do to sports funding.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Maybe worth remembering that the National Lottery gives an identical amount to the arts that it gives to sport, and, that as many people probably object to that, as they do to sports funding.
As with the lottery, it's the difference between the winners and the losers . The only guaranteed winners are the Govt , via taxes, and Camelot in guaranteed profits
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A person who has channelled the whole of their existence into a few minutes in which they might have gone higher, faster or longer should have done it at their own or commercial expense. I think it's a waste. What might they have achieved if they put their energy into a less selfish narcissistic pursuit?
Sport should be your pastime not your raison d’etre
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The only guaranteed winners are the Govt , via taxes, and Camelot in guaranteed profits