The boxer from Hull is Luke CAMPBELL (not Chapman). And may I say well done to ALL the athletes who took part, whether they are Yorkshire born or not. The will indeed Inspire a Generation. Lin PLEASE REMOVE NAMES & email ADDRESSES BEFORE FORWARDING. USE THE Bcc BOX FOR YOUR NAMES & ADDRESSES WHICH WILL HELP ELIMINATE UNWANTED EMAILS On 12/08/2012 13:03, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: > With only a few events left, today's Mail on Sunday has published on the centre pages of its > Olympics special pull-out supplement a definitive league table with the following headline: "So > Yorkshire really is the county of champions: If it was a country it would have beaten the likes > of Spain, South Africa and Brazil...and that's without all the medallists they tried to poach > from other counties". > > While pointing out that Yorkshire has attempted to claim athletes who were born elsewhere > but brought up or live in Yorkshire, the paper has Yorkshire right at the top of a county table > showing where all Team GB's medallists come from in birth terms. > > Yorkshire has five gold medals, 1 silver and 2 bronzes, followed by London (NOT actually a > county) with 4 golds, 6 silver and 6 bronzes, with Lancashire third with 3 golds no silver and 1 > bronze. The Mail writer, one Nick Harris, however, has the gall to say "OK London is not a > county but then neither is Yorkshire any more". I look forward to him receiving a flurry of > e-mails from all three shires pointing out that, whatever the clowns in Whitehall may have > decided in 1974, the traditional, historic county of Yorkshire still is most definitely a county, > whereas London was always traditionally divided between Middlesex, Surrey, Kent and > Essex! > > The Mail table shows that if Yorkshire had competed as a separate country we would be 15th > overall, just behind New Zealand but ahead of sporting giants Spain, South Africa and Brazil. > > Here are the gold medals won by Yorkshire-born Olympians..... > > JESSICA ENNIS, heptathlon, born in Sheffield > ALISTAIR BROWNLEE, triathlon, born in Dewsbury, brought up in Horsforth > ED CLANCY, men's cycling team pursuit, born in Barnsley > NICOLA ADAMS, a history maker as the first woman to win a boxing medal, born in Leeds > LUKE CHAPMAN, boxing bantamweight, born in Hull > > Perhaps in Rio in 2016 we will see Team Yorkshire, if we've got independence by then! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >