By Nir Wolf: 'The dog ate my medal': Top 10 excuses for Israel's poor showing in Beijing
Talkback
Title:Laugh! I nearly cried :-)
Name:Charles Smyth
City: BelfastState: Northern Ireland
I found this article to be tremendous fun, which is the spirit in which it was meant to be taken :-)

More seriously, team GB (UK) is spending about NS 3.6-billion to gain more medals than it would otherwise be able to win, so this is what the financial commitment is for winning medals in the modern Olympics. Does Israel really want to go down that road to win medals in categories such as track cycling?