Quote Originally Posted by Wheeze View Post
But track and field did better than swimming...which is another monophasic enterprise.
It's a conundrum to be sure but perhaps T&F is about finding solitary unique talents and nurturing them into success rather than something like cycling where you can build a support network around your stars....although swimming, again, failed in that respect.
How many of the T&F golds can be attributed to the GB management? Farah's cannot but I don't know about the others.

There's something about Van Comenee I don't like. I'd be happy to see him replaced with someone more....personable??
Swimming did fail on the medal count, but we seemed to have a lot of finalists so I'd be interested to see the stats on top 8 finishers which might suggest depth.

Only Ohorugu and Rutherford could really be attributed to the UKA structure.

Ennis is funded, but her income stream is well established and her coaching away from the UKA structure just like Farah.

Grabartz I would say not either. He wasn't on the radar until he jumped 2.34m indoors in January this year.