Behind each and every LIE is PRIDE. This is a truth so great that were we all to acknowledge this fact, we would despise the word PRIDE. I am NOT proud of our athletes, just happy for them. Jesus walks with us!

I’m proud of them, nothing wrong with pride.

mairead, pride is nothing to be ashamed about. Shame comes from ones inability to recognise ones self and the achievements we make as humans. Pride is a recognition of these strides in the human Condition SMS serves to push us beyond out assumed boundaries. if your religion makes you ashamed of these feeling then shame on that religion.

Mairead,, if he ran among us don’t you think we might do better than sixth?

Adrian – I’m sure your mother thought you were bright child and indeed there are surely those even today around you who would paint you as “intelligent”. That said, “shame” has little to do with pride being behind every lie. Hope you’re little rant about shame did you well God bless you!!

Mairead, you are off your head with some of the shouts you come out with on here!…. Weird!

Mairead – if you want to get into logic here and state that pride is behind every lie then let’s look at what you’re saying; pride is behind every lie – but pride does not lead necessarily to lies.

…….or maybe instead of doing your best to turn a perfectly good story onto your agenda, maybe wait for the story that’s got a different headline.

Let’s call a spade a spade here. The track & fielders were a huge let down. Great to get there and all that but they are second rate unfortunately.

And the options are to do what?

Our track and field athletes get very little support compared with other countries.

Would you suggest to just not bother sending athletes unless their times were enough to get into top 5? It’d make it a pretty boring Olympics. Getting to the Olympics is not a let down, doing well in the Olympics is a plus.

A small country like us should concentrate on one area, just like Jamaica. Their thing is sprinting. They are undoubtedly the best in the world at it. Maybe it’s boxing for us maybe it’s sailing or something like cycling but pick something and be the best at it

I’m not disagreeing with you tony. But our athletes can’t even peak on time for the Olympics. Bugger all pb’s or national records says more than the obvious honour it is to go there.

@Brian – Concentrate on one area in terms of funding or what?

If sport was only about Olympic success I’d agree. But it isn’t. Concentrating on just one area or a couple of sports would leave every other sport out in the cold. That doesn’t mean just for the Olympics.

You should watch the recent BBC-Michael Johnson documentary on the “slave gene”. May go a long way to explaining Jamaica’s success in athletics.

Are you Jerry Kiernan in disguise?

They, Jamaicans, have a pre disposition for success at such events due to genetics and history…not racist just reality in the way that northern Europeans can survive longer in extreme cold than northern Brazilians….welll done Ireland….well done Jamaica …2 small proud nations

The track is one of the more popular sports in Jamaica – in Ireland we have a population roughly twice that of Jamaica but most of our sports men and women are involved in Gaelic Games as well as rugby, football and golf. The structure and funding of Irish Athletics needs to be looked at.

@reevey – spot on.

Every 4 years people get caught up in the Olympics. It’s not the sole measure of sportsmanship in any country.

Also – if you compare any country to Jamaica in terms of medals v population they’ll be pretty well up there.
For Olympic success maybe we should look where we lie wrt bigger countries. I think you’d be surprised.

Sure as long as we reach the Olympic village we’ve done well(I don’t think)

yep