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Originally Posted by sishow
With my thinking to make the last post:
As for England/Great Britian........... Has to be Loughborough (spelling poo??!). Probabbly more top level atheletes from more sports trainning there, then anywhere else in the country. Especially considering the tiny population of the town.
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I'm not sure but I think Loughboroughs emergence as a centre for sport came about because it was selected for massive funding in the 1950s-60s thats why its iternational reputation seems odd when you look at the size of the town.I find the issue of class quite interesting in sport,rugby,cricket already mentioned,also the olympics. never studied it but I think that before WW1, between the wars and just after WW2 the GB squads were almost exclusively made up of uni/grads and armed forces personel.Of course things havn't changed that much, some sports will almost always be dominated by those whose parents have the cash to pay for training from an early age.
I suppose thats why GB could never produce a JESSE OWENS!!