奥运会:英国丰收金牌，法国丰收酸葡萄

France are the latest country to react badly to Great Britain's Olympic success, with a withering comment from their sports minister, Bernard Laporte. The former coach of the France rugby side took a swipe at Britain's strategy in Beijing by saying his country would not focus their resources on "four or five" sports in order to increase their medals haul.

"We aren't just going to concentrate our means on four or five sports to bring home the medals, like the British have done," he said, alluding to Team GB's golds in cycling, sailing, rowing and swimming - and disregarding the fact that Britain won their 47 medals in 11 different sports.

Coming after disdain in the Australian media and sarcastic comments from John Coates, the president of the Australian Olympic committee, about British success in the pool and the velodrome, it seems another of Britain's oldest sporting rivals are experiencing a case of sour grapes at Team GB's fourth place in the medals table and 19 golds in China.

France finished 10th in the Beijing table, with seven golds, but Laporte looked forward to success at the 2012 Games in London and said that "80% of the [French] medallists will still be up for selection in 2012".

面对英国在奥运会上取得的成功，法国最近反映强烈，法国体育部部长Bernard Laporte恶语中伤。这名前法国橄榄球队教练对英国的北京奥运战略含沙射影，他说法国不会为了增加奖牌数而把资源集中到“四五个”项目当中去。

“我们不会因为增加奖牌数而把所有的资源集中到四五个比赛项目上，英国人才那么做，”他说，以此暗示英国在自行车、帆船、赛艇和游泳比赛中取得的金牌，而对英国在11个不同的项目中所取得的47块奖牌置若罔闻。

对于英国在泳池和室内赛场取得的成功，澳大利亚媒体不屑一顾，澳大利亚奥委会主席John Coates也（对英国）冷嘲热讽。面对英国在北京取得19金、名列金牌榜第四的成绩，貌似英国的的另一个体育宿敌也开始祭出酸葡萄的大旗了。

虽然法国在北京奥运会上以七金名列金牌榜第十，但是Laporte希望法国能在2012年伦敦奥运会上取得成功，并称“80%的（法国）奖牌得主将参加2012年的奥运选拔