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The need to improve British Sport in terms of success, efficiency and organisation can be \ntraced back to the British failures at the Stockholm Games in 1912. Despite gradually \ndiminishing international performances British policy makers did little to try to resolve \nthe problem and the poor performances continued, something which the British public \nhad now become accustomed to. However, the poor result at the 1952 Helsinki Games \nmay have acted as a catalyst to improve the success of the British teams on the \ninternational stage because in 1960 The Wolfenden Report suggested that improvement \nwas potentially linked to a relaxation in amateur rules and the introduction of scientific \nmethods of training. Perhaps this provided the impetus needed because in 1965 the \nBritish Olympic Association expressed a desire to improve performance from means \nother than those of standard training. This marked a pivotal moment in British sport as it
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The need to improve British Sport in terms of success, efficiency and organisation can be \ntraced back to the British failures at the Stockholm Games in 1912. Despite gradually \ndiminishing international performances British policy makers did little to try to resolve \nthe problem and the poor performances continued, something which the British public \nhad now become accustomed to. However, the poor result at the 1952 Helsinki Games \nmay have acted as a catalyst to improve the success of the British teams on the \ninternational stage because in 1960 The Wolfenden Report suggested that improvement \nwas potentially linked to a relaxation in amateur rules and the introduction of scientific \nmethods of training. Perhaps this provided the impetus needed because in 1965 the \nBritish Olympic Association expressed a desire to improve performance from means \nother than those of standard training. This marked a pivotal moment in British sport as it
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