Monday, 25 June 2012

Great Britain, the greatest sporting nation


 

By George Ross

As we know last week was Royal Ascot and this week is the start of the best two weeks in the Tennis calendar. We won’t talk about the football, as we all know it wasn’t going to be the best of tournaments. Even though we went into the Euros with the mindset that the pressure was off, everyone was still saying that we could still go all of the way. Just look at Chelsea. It is this sort of mentality that defines the British outlook. “We aren’t going to do well. But we are really.” It is this reason that we think that we will achieve a lot in sporting events, however we have not.



There are the Olympics to look forward to this year and we have got a great set of athletes who are going to be representing Great Britain. Now that we know that we have a good set of athletes a Nation expects. For example in Beijing four years ago we weren’t expected to do as well as we did and it boosted the profile of the various athletic sports due to be contested this summer. As a nation we tend to build up the expectation only to be knocked back down again. It is a tradition whenever we go into a major sporting event, so I guess I had better do my bit. 


“Come on Andy, this will be your year!”