Nick Clegg has addressed the assembled GB team prior to the
start of the London Olympics. I’m sure that nothing could spur them to greater
heights than a pep talk from Nick Clegg... (For those who don’t know, he’s the
leader of Britain’s
third political party, the survival of which beyond the next election is in
doubt following their ill-judged alliance with the Tories.)
I could pick up on several bits of empty rhetoric that made
up his speech, but empty rhetoric is about what one expects from politicians,
so there’d be nothing new there. The one thing I thought worth mentioning was,
as reported by the Press Association:
He told the nation's
Olympians they could expect the support of the whole country as they battle to
claim a record gold medal haul at the Games in London.
The Olympics didn’t used to be about claiming ‘a record gold
medal haul’ for a particular country. They used to be about individual athletes
demonstrating their prowess. There’s a difference.
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