m**c 发帖数: 7349 | 1 The remorseless focus on the elite has drawbacks.
For one thing, Lottery revenues come disproportionately from low-income
households, whereas the beneficiaries of Olympic funding are a posh bunch.
A quarter of the British team in Rio were privately educated. Worse, the
success of Britain’s star athletes is in contrast to the lardy state of the
general population. The London Olympics was supposed to inspire greater
participation in sport. But in England weekly sports participation has
fallen by 0.4% since 2012.
Time to stop watching sport and start playing it. |
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