In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

Because they will have the sports facilities on their doorsteps, not
2.5 hours away by Eurostar.

IF they live in East London.

True, but there will be improved transport links to East London! Make
it easier to get to Lea Valley Ice Rink.....
Just add 6hrs from Carlisle plus the travelling time from wherever yo
live to Carlisle.
--
Clive

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
As a nation we are desperately short of world-class sport facilities,
not just for holding events, but for training. It's five weeks from
the Commonwealth Games trials, and British swimmers are having to fly
out to Slovenia, because there aren't enough decent places to train
here, FFS! There are only twenty 50-metre swimming pools on nineteen
sites in the entire country - Berlin alone has more than that.
Australia had 1,600 in total, 45 of which are full Olympic standard.
--
So how many swimmers are we talking about in what number of people?
--
Clive

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
even to maintain the average balance across the country, the capital
should have four 50m pools.
A question open to Londoners, do you want the extra poll tax, yes or no?
--
Clive

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes
Absolutely! Anyway, it's a long way away, all these grumpy old men
might be living somewhere else by then....
As a grumpy old man, I already live somewhere else, I don't do the
lottery so are you happy to fund it?
--
Clive

Clive ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

even to maintain the average balance across the country, the capital
should have four 50m pools.

A question open to Londoners, do you want the extra poll tax, yes or no?

gently
We haven't had the poll tax since 1993.

Clive wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 8 Jul 2005:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
even to maintain the average balance across the country, the capital
should have four 50m pools.
A question open to Londoners, do you want the extra poll tax, yes or no?

Since we don't actually have any poll tax in the first place......
haven't had since 1990 or so.....
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Clive wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 8 Jul 2005:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
As a nation we are desperately short of world-class sport facilities, not
just for holding events, but for training. It's five weeks from the
Commonwealth Games trials, and British swimmers are having to fly
out to Slovenia, because there aren't enough decent places to train
here, FFS! There are only twenty 50-metre swimming pools on
nineteen sites in the entire country - Berlin alone has more than that.
Australia had 1,600 in total, 45 of which are full Olympic standard.
--
So how many swimmers are we talking about in what number of people?

Rather more when they have facilities to train.

Look, you're making the common mistake of a non-athlete (okay, I'm
making a sweeping assumption here, and may well be wrong about you) in
thinking that only those people who actually make it to their world
championships are involved in the sport. For every one who does, there
are probably several hundred, if not a thousand good club swimmers/
skaters/riders/footballers/track and field athletes/whatevers who have
no ambitions to do that, but are happily competitive against athletes of
their own age group and standard. Some of them are very good indeed,
others, like myself, pretty dreadful - but all of us have enormous fun,
keep fit, and enjoy getting as good as we can.

The more facilities we can provide, the larger the base of athletes who
will use them, and the more world-class athletes we might throw up - and
this is actually a "virtuous circle", since the more world-class
athletes we *do* produce, the more people decide to try their particular
sport.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Clive wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 8 Jul 2005:

In message , Mrs
Redboots writes
Absolutely! Anyway, it's a long way away, all these grumpy old men
might be living somewhere else by then....
As a grumpy old man, I already live somewhere else, I don't do the
lottery so are you happy to fund it?

If you live somewhere else, what does it matter to you *where* the
Olympics are held? You won't be affected one way or the other.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:44:20 +0100, Paul Terry
said:

Seb Coe is the son of a cyclist and grandson of a sprinter. As a member
of the Hallamshire Harriers, he was already competing in serious racing
at the age of 12, and being coached as a sportsman by his father - in
other words, he didn't take up sport after watching the Mexico Olympics!

He is also a politician - and worse, a TORY politician. It is only
natural then that he be a liar too.

--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david