I note Mahe Drysdale has gone “back to the well” as they say in sport, and as part of his Tokyo Olympic dream hooked up with former coach Dick Tonks. 

Dick Tonks is a coaching legend and we have never been more successful with oars than when Tonks ran stuff. He fell out with Rowing New Zealand, left, and we have the results to show ever since. 

The fact Drysdale has sought him out speaks volumes. Tonks is hard and you never train harder than when you're under Tonks. 

And that leads to winning, and winning is what sport is all about. 

Or is it? 

The Australians are going through a good dose of introspectivity at the moment post their cheating report into cricket.

Now no-one condones cheating, but they're busy also castigating themselves over their attitude as well. The attitude that, ironically, saw them as the best side in cricket. 

The same attitude that, until this new age of PCism, and touchy feely “being nice to each other,” we used to actually aspire to. 

How many summers have we lamented the “hard mental edge “ of the Australians? All the times when it came down to it, the split second, the final moment, we capitulated and they didn’t. And we argued we lacked the mental toughness possessed by the Aussies. 

All that's bad news now, apparently. We are seeing it here in cycling, football, hockey. No one's happy, everyone's abused, harassed and picked on. The attitude is wrong, the expectation is too high or unfair. 

In some circumstances lines, it would appear, have been crossed. But I am getting the increasingly over arching feeling that we are more interested in a human resources, PC approach to participation in sport, as opposed to what we were actually there for in the first place, which was, of course, winning.

The reality is, winning at elite level has always required people to be, in part, singular, selfish, driven, to be blunt, hard nosed if not hard arsed.

And what we appear to be doing is infiltrating societies wider desire to be inclusive into elite sport, and hoping the two will mix. I can tell you for nothing it won't come close. It doesn't stand a chance. 

In our world of everyone gets a say, there are no bad ideas, we are all equal,  in sport that’s a recipe for coming seventh, if not worse. The two worlds are not compatible. The saying "nice guys finish last," is a saying for a reason. 

While these reports all appear to be producing what we as a, #metoo, time is up, gender equality, equal pay, equal everything sort of a society wants to hear,wait till everyone doesn’t win, then listen for the moaning. 

That's why Drysdale is with Tonks, he still gets it.