Olympic myths exposed – independent schools and Team GB
On the day that Team GB’s first gold medals of the London Olympic Games of 2012 were won by a pair of privately-educated rowers, Lord Moynihan, the chairman of the British Olympic Association, voiced controversy and criticism rather that joy and congratulation when he announced: “It is one of the worst statistics in British sport, and wholly unacceptable, that over 50% of our medallists in Beijing (at the 2008 Olympic Games) came from independent schools, which means that half of our medals came from just 7% of the children in the UK.” UK Sport and Olympics bosses had already admitted