Olympic dreams up in smoke

Yes i know we are only just into the Olympic's, and i am perhaps being slightly premature (not that i have been accused of that before), but i am slightly concerned that we are not even going to get 10 medals.

So far we have failed in most things, massive disappointment in diving (still time Tom), Badminton cant believe Imogen and Chris fell so soon, Susan did well in the Badminton mind you just out played at the end, well done to Zara and to our male gymnasts, slight over reaction to getting bronze in my opinion, it aint gold you know, huge shout out to woman's football team amazing performance tonight against the Brazilians.

I have said before and i will say again we need to start training earlier, look at the Chinese they are practically training their kids from the womb, some moan and say this is not right and that the children lose out on their childhood, and then go on to complain we dont win anything.
You cant have everything we either want to win, or we like to complain about not winning, so what will it be?

We have a huge opportunity when the Olympics finishes, the facilities that will be there for kids will be second to only USA or China, so lets stop this trend and defeatists attitude.

At the Badminton Scotland conference this year in Largs Inverclyde, this was one of the key issues that was raised.

What they would like to do (subject to funding of course) is to start training our youngsters earlier, I think 5yr's was mentioned, we want to drill in the basic skills at this age, until such a time as these skills become as natural as breathing.

The only problem with this is changing parent and coaches belief in the system, will performing the same drill 4-5 days a week be fun, probably not, will it produce champions in years to come, YES, and with that in mind will the parents who drive the little angels to their training, be able to keep up with this schedule, difficult yes, near impossible more than likely.

However difficult this is going to be we need to get everyone to sign up to this, we need a commitment from everyone to change, how though?

Major issues is that this will cost money, unlike the Chinese and Americans we are not financially in a position to  compete.

So must we compete with a our stiff upper British lip, do we fight to the bitter end and say no we are better than this.
Well i think we are better than this, i think we can compete, and i am getting sick of people saying "look at the Chinese they are amazing, but i wouldn't want my kid to train like that". Well neither would i, but what are you parents doing, are you instilling a winners attitude, or a do your best and that is good enough.
Its not good enough, its about time we fight the battles we can win, not in our wallets but in our mind, if you believe you can win, then you can win.

Do you believe you can win?