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I like all of the people that were selected for the Olympics so am very proud to have seen the GB team fence in front of such crowds (only on TV mind, the 3 events I was at had no British representation sadly).

My issue is with the selectors and the management-speak (aka nonsense) used to justify bad selections. It is none of the athletes' faults that they had been selected and there is not a single person that would turn down an opportunity to compete not just at an Olympic Games (all those being selected have given up as much time to train as those not selected (with a couple of exceptions)), but a home Olympic Games..regardless of whether they believed they deserved it or not.

Some of the posts seen on the 'guess the wildcards' thread when the selections were made was plain nasty towards the fencers and not objective at all. I have tried to be rational about all the selections and did not agree with them all but it has been and gone now.

The PD is the one who has to take the responsibility for the results that have come about as would be the case in nearly all other sports.

As for the actual results, 1 win against foreign opposition from the individual events from 10 fights is simply not good enough (not counting the WF fight-off). To get not one fencer into the L16 is a poor effort considering that constituted only one victory against a (generally) higher-ranked fencer for most of our fencers. WFT performed as their seeding and previous results suggested it would. MFT fought very well today and should be congratulated for that.