Finally Gordon Brown has done something that I think is good – he has said that competitive sports will become the norm in all schools again.  He said:

"We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the ‘medals for all’ culture we have seen in previous years. It was wrong because it doesn’t work. In sport you get better by challenging yourself against other people. A lot of sports are team games where people have to work together but they play against other teams."

He also said in an attempt to encourage more girls to take up sport, female Olympic stars, including Dame Kelly Holmes, Christine Ohuruogu, Rebecca Adlington, Victoria Pendleton and Beth Tweddle, would head up a new taskforce promoting sport to girls.

He announced that plans are also under way for a new website for school sports where teams will be able to compare their performance in nationwide league tables – is this instead of the SATs league tables?