You don’t deserve medal for being the best sulker

HOW disappointing, and rather sad, to see the British boxer Ben Whittaker treat his Olympic silver medal with disdain, saying: “You don’t win silver, you lose gold.” (“Whittaker fails to find a silver lining”,August 5).

Listen Ben, you tell that to all our other silver and bronze medal winners – tell them that they are all losers and see what response you get.

I think they’ll tell you every Olympian is a winner.

Just to make the team is a fantastic achievement in itself, to win a medal of any colour is an outstanding result.

Terence Eastman,

Plympton, Devon