Coe: Reflects on GB's results

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With the success of Team GB this year in Beijing Sebastian Coe thanked the team for helping to generate excitement for 2012.

In the run up to the next Olympic Games the London 2012 chairman felt that the medal winning performances would inspire the country in the run up to the London Olympics.

"The platform provided for us by Team GB is one that we should not overlook- the performance out here has been a testament to the focus of the national governing bodies, the quality of competitors, the world class nature of that coaching," he said.

"We as an organising committee are very grateful for that platform because that allows us to drive the length and breadth of the United Kingdom building on the excitement that has been generated over the last two-and-a-half weeks here.

"Whether it is bringing to the table more business partners or broadening the appeal to groups of people who may not have understood the full value of that- until the performances that they've witnessed domestically in the last few days."

Coe stated that despite the successful medal haul of Team GB he felt that the sports would be well placed to repeat their achievements in four years time.

"If you look at the Sydney Games, in their own backyard, the Australians did remarkably well, but four years later in Athens they actually won more medals. The structures that you put in place are hopefully structures that will keep delivering for the next 20 years," he said.

"What we witnessed here is the amalgam of good administration within governing bodies, world-class coaching, elevated levels of funding and hungry motivated competitors. If you bring those four things all together you tend to get people up onto a rostrum."