That’s the message I get from an article in her local paper in the U.K.
How can that be?
Becky Downie finished 12th AA at the Beijing Olympics and is a national star in the lead-up to Europeans and the Olympics in her own country?
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Perhaps the story is overblown?
… the gym where she trains, at Rushcliffe Leisure Centre, has suffered from broken heating, outdated equipment and overflowing rubbish bins. …
But training had to be cancelled in December because the gym was unheated.
“It was too cold and dangerous,” said Claire Starkey, head coach at Notts Gymnastics Club. “We’ve complained to the council. …
The gym has been selected as a pre-Games training camp for 2012.
“It’s a joke,” says Claire. “If I brought my colleagues from the US and China here it would be embarrassing. There’s one toilet for 150 kids. Unless the facilities are improved, we won’t be producing any more Olympians.” …
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