Money isn't guaranteed to buy you a top quality programme which produces consistent medal winners across a range of disciplines, unless you spend it properly. Under the current UK Sport funding formula though, it does perpetuate success and failure.

How much does the LTA make from Wimbledon every year, yet we still have to import Konta to get a decent female player?

So Mo Farah wins the double double. Well whoopdy f*cking do. That's the least you would have expected considering it's his job to train for these events.

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The absence quite correctly of Russia from most sports obviously helped our medal haul.

Without doubt, although their cheating probably reduced the number we should've won last time round.

Or helped China's, or America's, or Austrailia's, or Germany's, or France's etc. Russia being absent from many sports helped other nations just as much as ours and as pointed out above, robbed other athletes at previous games. We could've had more in swimming if the controversial Yuliya Efimova wasn't allowed to compete after failing two previous drugs tests, including one earlier this year.

Quite impressive what Alistair Brownlee did for his brother last night.