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Why we can't afford to stand still

Election focus: The Olympics and Commonwealth Games have focused minds, but the future will be shaped by what happens at grassroots level.

Football and golf, both of which had been proscribed by royal decree, curling, horse-racing, and archery (practice of which had been protected from the first two, also by royal decree) were the only games in town back in 1707.