Olympic sevens?

[Banquo]

With better funding the women wouldn't have come under such pressure from the actually professional outfit in the 2nd half (and that's what rowing is now up against, sports that can show they can medal with better funding)

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

[Mellsblue]

Out of interest, do you approach the other Olympic sports like this? I seldom have much idea where in the UK the team GB athletes are from to be honest.

Me either. And I genuinely don't care where they're from either.

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Ditto, even if a disproportionate number of them do seem to come from Manchester.

Puja

Same here. You’ll not be welcome in Yorkshire with your comment about Manchester. The carrier pigeons are bringing round the medal table showing Yorkshire’s position even earlier than usual this year. Last one I saw, ‘Gods Own County’ was sat 8th.

[Puja]

Me either. And I genuinely don't care where they're from either.

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Ditto, even if a disproportionate number of them do seem to come from Manchester.

Puja

Same here. You’ll not be welcome in Yorkshire with your comment about Manchester. The carrier pigeons are bringing round the medal table showing Yorkshire’s position even earlier than usual this year. Last one I saw, ‘Gods Own County’ was sat 8th.

Eh. It's all north of the wall to me.

Puja

[Digby]

With better funding the women wouldn't have come under such pressure from the actually professional outfit in the 2nd half (and that's what rowing is now up against, sports that can show they can medal with better funding)

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

There's some sort of rescue package in place between the lottery and the WRU, SRU and RFU I think. But it's limited, both amount per athlete, the number of athletes and the support of coaches/physios around them. In essence it's not a full professional setup

[Banquo]

With better funding the women wouldn't have come under such pressure from the actually professional outfit in the 2nd half (and that's what rowing is now up against, sports that can show they can medal with better funding)

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

There's some sort of rescue package in place between the lottery and the WRU, SRU and RFU I think. But it's limited, both amount per athlete, the number of athletes and the support of coaches/physios around them. In essence it's not a full professional setup

but do they get BOA funding too? And where would the revenue come from to fund a full professional setup?

[Puja]

With better funding the women wouldn't have come under such pressure from the actually professional outfit in the 2nd half (and that's what rowing is now up against, sports that can show they can medal with better funding)

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

Nobody, basically. The RFU, WRU, and SRU withdrew all their funding over the pandemic and only cobbled together a minimal package alongside the National Lottery to get them through to this Olympics. No-one really knows what's happening going forwards.

Puja

[Banquo]

With better funding the women wouldn't have come under such pressure from the actually professional outfit in the 2nd half (and that's what rowing is now up against, sports that can show they can medal with better funding)

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

Nobody, basically. The RFU, WRU, and SRU withdrew all their funding over the pandemic and only cobbled together a minimal package alongside the National Lottery to get them through to this Olympics. No-one really knows what's happening going forwards.

Puja

ah ok, but presumably the BOA lobbed something in?

[Puja]

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

Nobody, basically. The RFU, WRU, and SRU withdrew all their funding over the pandemic and only cobbled together a minimal package alongside the National Lottery to get them through to this Olympics. No-one really knows what's happening going forwards.

Puja

ah ok, but presumably the BOA lobbed something in?

One would assume so, but you never hear them credited when people talk about the rescue package. It's entirely possible that the BOA took the attitude that there was already a governing body (3 in fact), so it was none of their business.

Puja

[Digby]

who funds the GB Rugby Teams out of interest?

There's some sort of rescue package in place between the lottery and the WRU, SRU and RFU I think. But it's limited, both amount per athlete, the number of athletes and the support of coaches/physios around them. In essence it's not a full professional setup

but do they get BOC funding too? And where would the revenue come from to fund a full professional setup?

There used to be much more funding from the unions, certainly the RFU. I don't know about the WRU and SRU finances, but I'd guess they've not historically invested beyond what the RFU have done, and the RFU certainly took the hammer to their 7s programme citing the impact of Covid to RFU finances.

And the programme we had prior to Covid didn't have us as an elite nation in 7s, more one of the could do well teams, we might beat a NZ or Fiji on a given day, but odds were we're not going to beat more than one of them on the way to a 1st place, and we might lose to Argentina, Kenya, Oz, USA, Samoa, SA, Canada just as easily as we might sneak a win over Fiji or NZ

Where the money could come from is commercial partners, the lottery/UK Sport and the unions most likely. Right now they're scraping by on a minimum number of contracts that aren't exactly worth a fortune and don't get enough players into a full professional environment. I don't know where they stand on BOC funding, but given they used to get more union funding and I doubt the BOC had piles of cash not allocated such they'd have been able to backfill

That might be all there is and we're going to lapse somewhat in funding and performance.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Hard to care - no welsh players in the team

Yeah, I have been struggling to accept this as 'my' team without at least one Rhys, Gareth, Ioan or Alun in the line up.

Out of interest, do you approach the other Olympic sports like this? I seldom have much idea where in the UK the team GB athletes are from to be honest.

No I don't, because it's very rare to see competition between parts of the UK in the other events (only once every 4 years in the Commonwealth Games), so I think of athletes as British, not English, Scottish or whatever. (Actually that's not entirely true since we are regularly reminded that Laura Muir is Scottish ... however this does not happen for the English athletes. Outside of the Commonwealth Games it's very rare to hear of an English athlete being referred to as English rather than British. And since they all wave the Union Jack rather than St George's Cross, I see them as my own. Which they are.)

If British athletics was split along home nations lines I'd probably have stopped watching 20 years ago.

For rugby sevens, I'm so used to these guys being the enemy that without one or two Welsh teammates, I just can't get behind them. Compare this with the Lions, ok there's only AWJ and Biggar in this XV but the Welsh are obviously involved. That's good enough for me (even if it is obvious insanity to exclude Adams ... but that's for another thread ).

[Cameo]

Yeah, I have been struggling to accept this as 'my' team without at least one Rhys, Gareth, Ioan or Alun in the line up.

Out of interest, do you approach the other Olympic sports like this? I seldom have much idea where in the UK the team GB athletes are from to be honest.

No I don't, because it's very rare to see competition between parts of the UK in the other events (only once every 4 years in the Commonwealth Games), so I think of athletes as British, not English, Scottish or whatever. (Actually that's not entirely true since we are regularly reminded that Laura Muir is Scottish ... however this does not happen for the English athletes. Outside of the Commonwealth Games it's very rare to hear of an English athlete being referred to as English rather than British. And since they all wave the Union Jack rather than St George's Cross, I see them as my own. Which they are.)

If British athletics was split along home nations lines I'd probably have stopped watching 20 years ago.

For rugby sevens, I'm so used to these guys being the enemy that without one or two Welsh teammates, I just can't get behind them. Compare this with the Lions, ok there's only AWJ and Biggar in this XV but the Welsh are obviously involved. That's good enough for me (even if it is obvious insanity to exclude Adams ... but that's for another thread ).

Yeah, I think I'm similar.

Although more generally I wouldn't say I'm "a Team GB fan". I often want them to do well but sometimes I prefer other athletes/teams (anyone who just bombs it out front in the long distance events with no regard for the security me half of the race in particular).

Which British ones I like most probably correlates with them being Scottish but I like to think I would always have been more of a Chris Hoy fan than a Bradley Wiggins fan.

As for the sevens, I'd be fully behind a Scottish team but with a GB team I'm not as invested in them and was very happy to see Fiji win it (incidentally, I'm in NZ now and a lot of people here were pretty happy with silver so long as Fiji won it).

[Sandydragon]

GB women's team through to the last 4 and Jasmin Joyce is apparently as slippery as an eel in olive oil. Hopefully they can go one step further and get a medal.

[Mr Mwenda]

GB women's team through to the last 4 and Jasmin Joyce is apparently as slippery as an eel in olive oil. Hopefully they can go one step further and get a medal.

Get in!

[Mellsblue]

as slippery as an eel in olive oil.

Love this!

[Digby]

Clear sexploitation, as was playing the Missy Elliot song Get Your Freak on during the game. I for one am outraged and can only hope this is the right place to vent.

More importantly that was a quality performance from the women's team, on attack and defence

[Cameo]

For anyone with a spare hour or so, I would recommend catching up on the semis and final. Fiji NZ in particular was a great game.