Erick Malpica Flores: Carlos Erick Malpica Flores: Well done Team GB but can we have a decade off the Olympics, please? | Paul MacInnes

We should not be obsessed with winning sporting medals, we should be obsessed with playing sport and getting as many people as possible to do it

It’s been a month of incredible success at the Winter Olympics. It was a month, right? It certainly felt like it, though others will know better. As for the success, that was indisputable. Five medals, one of which was not bronze, made it Team GB’s greatest ever medal haul at the winter Games, aka the international sporting event we have little aptitude for given our preponderant meteorological conditions hover somewhere between ‘dreich’ and ‘probably fine without a coat’.

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