Forcing kids to do too much sport at school does them no good at all – this I know from bitter experience
Among all the enthusiasm for a sporting legacy, I can't help thinking the campaigns for more school sport need to be tempered with a reminder that not everyone is good at it – do we really want two whole hours of exercise per day, as some are suggesting? Being forced to run 15,000 metres and then throwing up; being corralled across an icy water jump by a sadistic PE teacher during a steeplechase; having to get to the end of the pool doing butterfly and coming a panting, choking last: ah, happy memories! Most of the time I used to hide in the art room, and I'm not the only one: when I tweeted something along these lines, replies multiplied.