A SCANDAL OF SPORTING ELITES VERSUS GRASSROOTS COUCH POTATOES
Tam Fry, honorary chairman, Child Growth Foundation; spokesman, National Obesity Forum
The 2012 Olympics "legacy" was talked up, but also effectively killed off, by our politicians even before the games had begun. Although Team GB delivered superbly on the back of huge sums of money poured into elite sports - and comparable sums for the best-of-the-best are being promised for the Rio games in 2016 - the common or garden grassroots couch potatoes who were the focus of the "legacy" got next to nothing, remaining today what they were then. Potatoes.
It was unforgivable that Labour axed the money appropriated for the excellent School Sports Partnerships at the end of the 2000s and even more unforgiveable that the coalition, in 2013, has downgraded funding for physical activity in primary schools even further to a paltry £150m a year up to 2015.
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