I had the pleasure of watching the Tonbridge primary schools district athletics championships yesterday evening. It really was uplifting and wonderful to see so many children shouting and encouraging their team to to do well. What ever the so-called Nanny State does to stiffle the competitive instinct in our school children, these sort of events just show that they just can't. It's in-built and part of life, children will learn about success and failure early in life. Yes the few girls who fell over, will probably have cried for half an hour afterwards because they felt like they'd let their school's team down, but you know what they'll get over it and learn from it. Anyway surely it's better to try and fail than not to try at all. Even better to win though! There were almost certainly one or two boys and girls with real prospects, you can just sense the ones who are the true naturals. Maybe one of them will end up competing in the Olympic Games in 2016, wherever that will be held. Let's hope so. Now did I ever mention my having ran in the 110m hurdles at the English Schools Championships in 1979? No? That's probably cos I don't lke to brag about it!...
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