Apart from Team GB of course.
I've been tasked (don't ask) to support a second team in the Olympics, so I'm going for Malawi.
4 competitors, 1 in the marathon, 1 in the 400 metres, and 2 in the 50metres Freestyle. One of the competitors bearing the first name of Charlton.
As they don't have any 50 metre pools to train in, in Malawi, let alone heated ones, I figure the 2 swimmers need some support.
[Miserable buggers need not apply :-)]
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Doing a course at Glouc Uni in Chletenham and there they were there, meeting local school atheletes who had come over as part of their end of year sports day. Brilliant and very grateful for the heated pool.
Went to the Cotswolds Tango Annual Dinner Dance a couple of weeks ago there. Very strange.
They may not have any 50m pools, but they've got a ruddy great lake. No crocodiles in a 50m pool though,I'd imagine.
St Lucia, 4 athletes in total, 2 high jumpers a sailor and a swimmer
They need some support.
Let's hear it for the little guys !!!!
Generally speaking though I think all of those individual sports should be open to the best in the World (that is after all the Olympic ideal) not the best from each country which is limiting. If the best four sprinters in the world are Jamaican they should all be running. We should't have to put up with 2nd best (or 4th best) just to squeeze people in from different countries. We should truly make the event a festival of sport unconstrained by national issues (for obvious reasons this doesn't apply to team sports though).
Go Canada Go!!
Only kidding in case the Patriot Police are reading this
Not just because my daughter-in-law is Somali and therefore my grandson is half-Somali.
But because there is no team at the Olympics that has suffered more adversity and tragedy.
There are only two of them - Mohamed Hassan Mohamed in the men's 1500 metres and Zamzam Mohamud Farah in the women's 400 metres.
There is not a single athletics track in the whole country," Zamzam says. ""Some have been used as army bases. Some have been destroyed. The talent is there but not the facilities.''
Actually, I think they are probably my first team. Soomaaliyeey toosoo !
To date no Malteser has ever won a medal of any description at the Olympics.
This year Malta will have four representatives at the Olympics - a male 100 m sprinter, a female 200 m sprinter, one swimmer and a contestant in the double trap shooting.
Im a plastic!!!