I noticed on Saturday on the website of the French sports daily L'Equipe that they didn't even mention Christine Arron after the women's 60m final (fastest over the distance so far this winter and a flash in the semis, she only made fourth). Every time it's a big event she fails to take her opportunity. So they didn't even print her name!
The French came away with nothing from Moscow, too. The piece on the website today just said that when the leading athletes are under-performing (Arron, and hurdler Roland Pongnon came 6th), or simply not there--it cited four or five internationals--France has no "reserves".
So GB is not alone.
It's the same in Germany, now, too. Their new guy won the heptathlon, but no-one else showed.
So let's put a bomb behind our second rung athletes!!!