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I was talking as more of a personal subjective decision. It's not for me to tell Chris Froome's mother if she's English or Kenyan. But in a thread where nationality through residency and grandparents is being discussed I felt it only fair to point out both cyclists mentioned are children of...

You seem to have omitted one key point?

History would suggest a winning tennis player isn't one of our jobs.

I don't know how 'Kenyan' you are when born to 2 ex pats living in Kenya. I'd guess it's a matter of choice although as it comes with a British passport it's hard to imagine being 100% Kenyan.

There's some terrible omissions through that system, basketball and badminton instantly spring to mind, but at least there's some accountability. If the LTA doesn't take a penny in public/lottery money then fair enough I withdraw my comments as they're completely wrong, but if they have their...

Anyway Simster is right all this thread does is deflect away just how shite The LTA is, this is just the equivalent of a Trump tweet about ISIS while his son is all but bringing down his presidency. Instead of glorifying the abject failure of blond wild card entrants, people should be asking...

mother Jane and father Clive, a former hockey player who represented England at under-19 level. His mother's parents had emigrated from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England to Kenya to run a crop farm. Froome's two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, went to Rugby School in Warwickshire, England

Chris Froome was born in Kenya to VERY English parents, who had emigrated there from Gloucestershire. Bradley Wiggins was born to his English mother and Aussie father in Ghent as that's where he was riding. BW and his mum returned home when he was 2 when his dad left them.