I was trying to avoid this but what good international results did Copnall have?
We don’t know what BCs funding KPI’s are, if it is £x per y% of medals, then the’d naturally avoid people racing who were going to drag down their funding criteria.
BC from the outset have always been very clear it is our way or nothing, it is highly successful, but will cast people by the way side. It isn’t about being nice, it is highly success driven. As I mentioned Dan Martin is an example of someone who didn’t want to fit in, and has become successful his own way and by moving his allegiance to Ireland.
mikewsmith I do agree, but this isn’t a privately funded chap we are talking about. We are discussing BC and the Olympics and they get their funding from results alone and as such do everything to maximise it. Is that wrong, possibly, but that is the requirement BC and the other federations are given for getting their Olympic funding. If they had been less successful in the past, then I doubt Jess would have got the chances she has had to date.