I reckon the Queen is going to be very busy handing out various honours this year to our Olympians Knighthoods to all those with two golds, please.

Stephen, St. Ives, England

It's about more than just attitude! Where British sport is the best it's because it combines:

* the best possible coaches (irrespective of nationality)
* top quality facilities
* the total support of the governing body and its subordination to elite athletes

Matthew Cain, London,

I think Peter Keen, David Brailsford, our fsuperb cyclists have shown the BOA dinosaurs what is possible when we take a sport seriously - a bit of funding (instead of wasting on football), some world class sports facilities and the right men leading this (Keen then Brailsford) and look what happens.

Mark Dixon, Manchester,

The track and field athletes seem to spend most of their funding on gold chains.

Kevin, Leeds,

Cycling is in no way posh, if anything it's classless. Nearly every child in the UK looks forward to getting their first bike, that's a massive pool of potential talent.

Al Smith, Swindon, UK

The success of British track cycling is the result of sport managers obsessing over medal count. You get the best bang for the buck by focusing on minority disciplines with lots of medals contested by few countries. Will it translate into a grass roots interest in track cycling? You bet!

Louis, Edinburgh,

Graeme,

cyclings origins in the UK are in the working classes, and with strong links to the the unions. Not excactly 'posh' beginnings.

Considering the utter contempt most people have for cyclists in the UK it is staggering how well we do at it.

MGB, Carmarthen, Wales

Attitude - that is the main difference. The attitude of the sailers, rowers and cyclists is one of determination, however that can't be said for the rest, at almost every interview, the common theme was, "I have had a wonderful time and it has been good fun." The Olympic games is not a holiday.

Christopher Grimes, Chandler's Ford, UK

One of the participants in last weeks "Mock the Week" not only rubbished sailing and eventing as events for toffs but stated that they were not even "real sports". Wouldn't it be wonderful if the miserable slobs who make comments like this in print or on the air were all shamed into silence?

Peter Milner, Welshpool,

Good Graeme. Football, football, football.....as my grandmother used to say a gentleman's game played by ruffians ! and then she added, why not just give them a ball each ? Why football: its the only game a ruffian can play, not much effort, fouls etc....let a footballer try cycling ! He needs a car

E.Bee, Toulouse, France

All well and good, but when the Olympics are over, the media will just resume it's obsession with football; a game that we seem to be utterly hopeless at as a nation. Cycling. rowing, and sailing will once again be forgotten about by the everyman. (They're 'posh' sports you see.)

Graeme, Brockley,