The early surge in medals for team GB has been delighting audiences during the first stages of the games when sitting down sports dominate. The UK has traditionally done well in sports where standing up is not required, such as sailing, cycling, rowing, and riding horses. Although recently we become better and won medals in leaning on a post shooting at things, falling into swimming pools and bouncing, so it’s not all bad news.
The medal count is expected to slow dramatically as traditional field sports dominate the timetable.
A spokesman for Team GB explained that, while we are quite good at relatively sedentary sports, when it comes to running forwards and throwing things other than bricks we fall behind other nations.