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Olympic Map of Britain

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  1. Otto Flayshow

    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    The link below shows where Britain's Olympians came from. You select an area, then click on a sport and it tells you if your area is pulling its weight in that field.

    https://www.joininuk.org/wheretheystarted


    I was shocked to discover that Glasgow is slacking in the cricket department. :emoticon-0104-surpr
     
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  2. Barrie Lochrie

    Barrie Lochrie New Member

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    Apart from cricket, Glasgow has down quite well and punched above it's weight in most categories.
     
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  3. Otto Flayshow

    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    To be fair, everyone is slacking at cricket apart from Devon and Somerset. Cricket's only been played at one Olympics and Devon & Somerset Wanderers represented Britain.
     
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    Ironically enough Boxing.
     
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    Hertfordshire - badminton capital of Britain.
     
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    <laugh>.
     
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    London's the best by quite a long way really, look at the gold medal chart <ok> Particularly impressive are the boxing and athletics stats <diva>

    The cricket and Rugby maps <laugh> London has produced 0 Rugby players.
     
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    Merseyside has produced more sailors than average - I wondered who'd trained the Somalian pirates.
     
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    Ireland produced the first tennis champ. <ok> <tigertimmyarse>
     
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    He lived and died in England like all the best paddies.
     
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    Born in Dub land:biggrin:
     
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