English children 'more competitive'

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;english-children-more-competitive&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"English youngsters are more competitive than the Aussies&comma; a survey found" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;min-english-children-more-competitive&period;jpg" alt&equals;"English youngsters are more competitive than the Aussies&comma; a survey found"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The stereotypical image of the English sportsman who is gracious in defeat and believes in &&num;8220&semi;fair play&&num;8221&semi; is not the case for today&&num;8217&semi;s children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As England&&num;8217&semi;s cricketers compete for an historic Ashes win in Australia&comma; a new poll reveals England&&num;8217&semi;s youngsters are far more competitive than their Australian counterparts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The poll&comma; commissioned by the Cricket Foundation&comma; found more than four out of five English parents &lpar;83&percnt;&rpar; said their child was competitive&comma; compared with three quarters &lpar;75&percnt;&rpar; of Australian parents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twice as many English parents as Australians said they believed winning was the most important thing to their child when playing sport &lpar;10&percnt; compared with 5&percnt;&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The survey questioned more than 1&comma;000 English and Australian parents of children aged six to 16&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The findings show that while more than a fifth &lpar;21&percnt;&rpar; 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