Playing Fields of Eton crisis: No Etonian medals at 2021 Olympics
According to figures in the Murdoch Sunday Times (15th August) nobody from Eton won a medal for team GB at the 2021 Olympics for the first time in three decades.
The Sutton Trust reported that before 2021 Old Etonians had won medals for 7 Olympics in a row in ‘sitting down’ sports including cycling, sailing and equestrianism.
In Tokyo Team GB won 20 medals in BMX, boxing and canoeing with all winners being from State schools.
However it wasn’t all good news in the sports class war. 35% of Team GB 2021 medal winners went to fee paying schools who participated in ‘posh sports’ such as the pentathlon and shooting.
The definitions of class and sport may seem rather random here but there is no doubt that the playing fields of Eton are in crisis.
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