Britain’s Huge Investment in Summer Olympic Sports Pays Off – New York Times

New York TimesTwenty years ago, Britain’s athletes returned from the Olympic Games branded the “team of shame.” Britain won only one gold medal at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, and finished 36th on the Olympic medal table, below Kazakhstan, Algeria and Ireland.Targeted funding behind Team GB’s success in Rio OlympicsFRANCE 24 all 113 news […]

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