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This Yorkshire Olympic medal thing needs to stop

Mike Pollitt | Friday 10 August, 2012 12:00

Medals map for the North of England
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Snipe is a London blog, but sometimes national issues of such grave importance arise that it’s necessary to widen our scope.

ITV news has a story up called Yorkshire map marks Olympic glory. It says:

“A new map for tourists that highlights Yorkshire’s overwhelming Olympic success will be launched today.”

I’ve seen numerous tweets from excited Tykes extolling Yorkshire athletes and imagining where Yorkshire alone would rank in the medal table. The county’s athletes have done amazingly well; congratulations to them all.

And yet take a look at the map above, from the Ordnance Survey (crown copyright etc etc). There’s a medal-less gap in the middle which roughly equates to the Pennines. Both sides of that gap have done well, haven’t they? It’s just that one side doesn’t feel the need to trap on about it like Geoffrey Boycott after one too many rhubarb ciders.

The Guardian – Ordnance Survey map of Team GB medallists

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