SIR – Re your comment ‘Remember it’s all about taking part’ (Worcester News, May 22).

I am now 80 so sport is taking a fairly back seat, apart from walking exercises and aquafit.

In my time I have tried athletics, cricket, football, badminton, tennis, table tennis, swimming and water polo to name but a few.

I was never first class in any of them as we didn’t have the facilities available today but I always played to win even though I often lost.

I was ‘a jack of all trades, but master of none’.

When I was in the RAF and stationed at Exeter in 1952, two of us joined Exeter Harriers.

At a charity meeting the great McDonald Bailey from Trinidad, who ran in the final of the Olympics for Great Britain in 1948, ran with some of us in a handicap.

Needless to say he left all of us in our blocks.

Again while at RAF Exeter, I competed in the group championships at Tangmere and discovered the airman in the next lane was running for England in Amsterdam the next day. What a hope?

But as you said in your comment: “After all, it’s not the winning it’s the taking part.

PHIL PEGLER Worcester