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 Olympics - sherlock47
The GB difference can be largely explained by the start of lotttery funding in about 1996. In the first year I believe that the available funding that replaced the government ( tax derived) funding went from about £5M to about £50M. This enabled promising athletes to give up full time occupations.

The administration was also tightened up, with under performing sports having grants withdrawn. That made waves! but focussed the minds and ended up with some of the older administrators being replaced by more 'professionally' organised outfits.

Combine that with some of the world class sports science university organisations and you start to see results.

Now all they have to do is get rid of things like dressage ( as near a sport as a dog show) and replace with genuine competitive sports. I do not include darts or snooker as worthy of inclusion, but cricket - baseball - could easily find acclaim. The newly introduced golf this year was definitely a rivetting watch for the last 10 holes.
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