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