Kosh wrote:
Only if you ignore where most of them were actually born.
The OS map is based on where the athletes were born (if born in mainland Britain) or are currently based (if born elsewhere). The publicity material produced by Welcome to Yorkshire is not. Hardly surprising that a tourist agency would want to favourably distort the true picture, but a little surprising that so many are so easily taken in.
Thats a little flexible in its own definition though isn't it ?
"Where they were born" is one thing and thats fine, but then throw in "or where currently based" just destroys the survey's credibility, if we stuck rigidly to those definitions then we can go back through history and claim a huge percentage of medals for Yorkshire on the basis that until recently there were only two physical education colleges of excellence in the country, one in Leeds, one in Loughborough and most of our semi-pro athletes of that age trained at one or the other.
Look closer at that map and you'll see winners who were born in Germany and Belgium, clearly they aren't there on the basis of where they were born
Of course its frippery, no one this side of the line ever suggested otherwise (is Middlesborough in Yorkshire, well Yorkshire Cricket Club play there so thats good enough), what is amusing us all is the hissy fits that some take when they see us celebrating our athletes success.
Its just LOL all the way for us
