We are horrified when countries are found to have allowed their athletes to use drugs to improve their performance. The UK now seems to be using “financial doping” to give their athletes that extra edge (Sports cast adrift in drive for Olympic medals, Sport, 21 February). UK sport now seems to want “best medal success to make the nation proud” and blow all the athletes who might only be the fourth best at their sport in the world.
Ron Brewer
Old Buckenham, Norfolk
• Not winning but taking part; Baron de Coubertin must be spinning in his grave.
Chantal Legg
London
• I note you have labelled French voters living in the UK as expats (Chasing the expat vote, 21 February). In the current climate, I would find it helpful if you could identify which foreign nationals are expats as opposed to migrants.
Stephen Hughes
Bethesda, Gwynedd
• While I’m sure “a bloke in a JCB” could perform the work necessary to maintain the tundra (A world safe for robots and mammoths, Letters, 21 February), it would be a mammoth task.
Nigel Moss
Buxton, Derbyshire
• As it is proposed to tax robots, should they have the right to vote?
Alan Jones
London
• Like Jane Jones (Letters, 20 February), I too won the Weetabix Wonder Book of Birds in an essay competition at primary school in 1959. Unlike her, I was disappointed by my prize. All other contestants were given two Weetabix in a special wrapper, which I thought was much cooler than a book about birds.
Dee Reid
Twyford, Berkshire
• The correct and splendid term for leftover pastry and currants (Letters, 21 February) is of course lardy buster. See George Orwell’s Coming up for Air.
John Banks
Ledbury, Herefordshire
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