London 2012: Has Britain made the most of its Olympic legacy?

So what’s the answer? At the moment the government is empowering sports governing bodies to drive up grassroots participation and withholding lottery money from those who don’t deliver. Tennis, for example, has been told it won’t get all its funding unless they show they are making progress in this area.

This is the same hard-headed approach that worked so well for our elite sportsmen and women. If sports don’t produce medals, they get less funding. Simple as that. This has to be the right approach.

But it’s also a question of facilities and in most cases that comes down to local authority budgets. At a time when they are being squeezed, the government needs to think about whether it is doing enough to ensure there are courts and pitches to play on.

A number of people have written to me flagging up cuts and closures which contradict the overarching commitment to increasing grassroots participation.

Could more money be found or another way of releasing good facilities for wider community use? A lot of good work is already happening in this area, but, as ever, more could be done.

Worryingly, it seemed to me that after the Games there was a lack of real drive around this issue. The moment the Olympics and Paralympics ended there was no nationwide campaign telling people how they could take up sports they had just watched or urging them to get more active.

That was a missed opportunity but given the recent run of sporting success, perhaps it’s not too late.