"For your info, so that you can slag it off completely, I am wearing white linen trousers with a white square cut vest top and a burnt orange linen shirt. Go for it!"
CLARE BALDING
BBC

"I AGREE wholeheartedly with the comments about the ridiculous choice of 'Team GB', a phrase possibly created by the same idiots who thought Gabby "did I mention I'm a Man Utd fan" Logan and Horsey Balding would make good presenters?

The only saving grace of the beeb coverage is having Michael Johnson as a pundit - someone who can actually boast pedigree and achievement."
CHIPS AND GRAVY
The North

"I COULDN'T agree with you more old chap, about the dreadful 'Team GB' phrase. Awful!

I hope the trend for renaming sports teams doesn't spread to football. We may end up with Team Arse instead of Arsenal! Come to
think of it..."

"P.S. According to an excellent article in The Guardian 'Team GB' was dreamed up by a woman called Marzena Bogdanowicz (a true Brit if ever I heard one!) who, in about 1997, was the head of marketing for the British Olympic Association."
TOBY WOOD

"SOMETHING I've never said before and never thought I'd say, but spot on Swanny!

I would have hoped a bit of investigative journalism could have routed out the idiot that thought the phrase "Team GB" was big and clever. Then at least you could have gone round, told him him to clear off back to America and shot him.

Or her."
NKNABM
Peterborough

"SWANNY some of your comments were right, and you do a good job of stirring debate.

Great Britain has done fantastic this year in the Olympics. Look at China, they celebrate any medal from any sport emphatically, and we as Brits obviously do not, and that is the problem of this country.

Looking at the bigger picture, Great Britain have a lot to live up to when the games arrive in London.

China have presented the games in a way that should be admired, and we are going to have to go a long way to even come near it on a quarter of the budget.

But let's get behind this great nation for once, instead of moaning like spoilt brats, and I'm Italian."
NICK BEVILACQUA
Stanground

"'TEAM GB' is a misnomer, anyway. Competitors from Northern Ireland are included, so it should be 'Team UK'."
GARY2

"I'M sorry, but this article doesn't promote debate - it stamps on it - not that it even seems to under- stand what it wants to be debating in the first place.

I'll stand by my initial response: moronic, random, illogical, sexist, childish, complete lack of coherence, inane and a complete waste of time."
BIANCA68