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Two good moments at the Emirates on Saturday, Roger: in addition to Mo appearing, you'd be remiss to fail to mention the wonderful Arsenal Ladies team who have already won two trophies this year! (Both were presented at half time).

Don't our gold rush days tend to happen on the middle weekend when the athletics is starting and the cycling is peaking? What we need is an early banker (to avoid the Vancouver syndrome for the Canadians when the "when will it happen" issue pops up) and then for the media to not overcook it and remind people that are our big potentials are later in the fortnight ...

Isn't it the case, though, that Britain has had quite a lot of success across a range of sports lately? Haven't there been world golds in sports such as triathlon and Taekwando-I know judo has been disappointing- and hasn't even that arch pessimist and bad mouther of ritish sport, Guardian columnist Kevin Mitchell, referred to excellent prospects of British boxers?

Isn't it also the case that countries like Australia depend on a relatively limited pool of talent? look at their performance at Daegu when Hooker,Deakes, Watt, and Samuels failed to deliver.

I think GB can be reasonably confident -though not complacent-about equalling and probably surpassing its fourth place and 19 golds of Beijing.

Sage advice about not getting to hysterically despondent in early days, though.

Totally agree with Archleftback above, while we must be cautious, it's also easy to be too pessimistic about our prospects. The one thing that is easy to forget is that in so called 'lesser' sports such as rowing and shooting, we still seem to have strength in depth. The real question in 2012 will be whether the public get behind these less well known athletes, as much of Team GBs success will come outside the Olympic Stadium.

A cav victory would set the games up brilliantly for the UK as Nicole did in Beijing. I feel at these olympics we have more chances in a wider variety of sports. As an earlier poster commented, we are relatively strong in Taekwando and other so called minority sports. Sailing and Rowing will be the main hub of our medal hall along with cycling, though changes to the make up of olympic track cycling events have slightly weakened our dominant position from Beijing.There has also been improvements in the strength in depth of our Swimming and Gymnastic teams. GO TEAM GB!!!

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I would just like to record my full agreement with the eminently sane and judicious comment made by Tom Blight in comment #3 above.

I would aso like to add that I think that the likes of Fran Halsall will come good in London and that Jessica Ennis will prove to have successfully addressed the questions posed recently by Chernova.

You must be quietly confident about GB prospects yourself Roger. Be honest now.

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Roger what is your take on this story?

How would you justify it?

Yes a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Source has tried to justify it but should we believe this ´óÏó´«Ã½ source, because as our previous conversations stated a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Source could be anyone.

Just to add as well as a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Source a ´óÏó´«Ã½ spokeswoman also spoke to the Daily Mail, why didnt they name the ´óÏó´«Ã½ spokeswoman, i can understand not naming the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Source, buy why say you have spoken to a ´óÏó´«Ã½ spokeswoman and not name this so called ´óÏó´«Ã½ spokeswoman?

Where is the logic?