Plus, they're 4-years older, already have a gold medal, and are less hungry for it.
Doesn't the Olympic performance plan allow for this ? e.g Jason Kenny being selected for sprint event based on form not reputation.
Other sports just dont seem to have been able to replicate the success of the cycling team and I just get this feeling that the Lottery funding, which produced the winners of 2008 , is somehow going to get diverted elsewhere or is being spent in the wrong sports .
Rebecca Adlington won a bronze medal in an event in which she won gold 4 years ago.
But she swam faster in 2012 than she did in 2008.
And no other female British swimmer has returned to a second Olympics and won a second medal.
The rest of the world is learning in the same way that we copied the Australian centres of Excellence.
