Proud to be a British Athlete

Chris Hoy has said it,
(quoted from the Scotsman Newspaper )

Speaking in Beijing, Hoy said: "Before there are any discussions of Scotland going it alone at the Olympics, he would have to look at the facilities and the resources that have been put into Scotland in the first place.

"At the moment we don't have an international facility for cycling and we don't have the coaching structures in place. In fact, we don't have anything in place, so the whole idea is ridiculous.

"I wouldn't have three gold medals hanging round my neck if I wasn't part of the British athletic team. I'm a Scottish athlete in a British team, and I'm proud to be a British athlete."

Absolute legend. If Scotland wanted to get its own Olympic team, then with enough money, time and effort then I am sure we could easily do so, but that's not the point.

We can keep dividing nations by culture, dialect, whatever and then 100 years from now we would then have the Scotland Olympic Team dividing up into the "Scottish Gaelic Olympic Team" and the "Geez-yer-wallet-right-noo! Glasgow Olympic Team"

whats the point in continuously separating everything? Unless of course a nation has a genuine gripe about some foreign occupier.

England is as independent as Scotland, less in fact, at least we have 2 votes! they only have 1! We have our own Parliament, England does not. As I keep on saying to other Scots, remember, England surrendered it status as a sovereign nation in 1707 just as we did.

Autonomy within a greater union is a great idea, diversity is also a great idea. Unity is the natural way to go, I think eventually nations will combine in Unions, Federations and Alliances. There are approx 195 countries in the world, is that not enough?

To promote splintering, fracturing, and separatism will only create a world with far more division in it and we all know what that leads to don't we?