hockey teams. The funding for elite sports I think is there. The challenge will be is if the country enjoys what they have seen and if the country feels that sports are an important thing, how do they take it forward? ATR: Were the Games in London as big as they can possibly be? CR: I think it would be possible to include another couple of indoor sports, and to do that you need to vary the number of athletes in each sport. I think the IOC rule of 10,500 athletes is fine and the number of sports could go from 28 to 30 by kicking a number of smaller sports into the program. The issue is the number of athletes. The village needs to be big enough to host 10,500 plus coaches and that I think is about right. And clearly a mature city like London can do it. I think that is good enough for the IOC. ATR: Difficult decision coming up in the next few months for the IOC about whether to cut a sport from the Olympic Program. CR: We are locked into a system that we established years ago that we would have 25 core sports. And the end result of that is we have to disappoint one of the current 26 and put it back into a bidding process with the others. I accept that commitment that was made and that's what we are going to do. Personally, if you are going to review