Cant agree.  I was pleased to see it.  Nothing disrespectful about that at all. They were not rude to the guy giving them out, they just did not want to wear them.  Second means nothing to them and that is the kind of mentality that breeds winners.  They prepared for four years and gave everything they had for that.  Disappointed would be an understatement for these guys. Brian Moore lobbed his medal into the Thames didnt he???  Another thing for people to be outraged about for the sake of outrage. 

Other nations are always looking at England and trying to paint us as arrogant. I can see what people are saying. But please, the players wanted to win the tournament not finish second.

They are right to be disappointed and hopefully that will drive them onto another level.

A friend of my wife and myself had just won a judo World Championship.
She let my wife bring the medal home for me to look at. My wife said to her she was nervous in case she lost it. All she said to my wife was the medal is not the real prise the winning was!

One of the pundits (I believe it was Fitz) on ITV said it was perfectly understandable that the players didn't want to wear the medal, for exactly the reason that Twickersman made.

Well I’m sure no one will walk up to Sinks and point out their displeasure when they see him at The Stoop. 

It’s like being branded a loser (for some).

And then others will take that, want to wear it and begin to build again.

I’d prefer my team to be in the second camp, by a margin, but these are young men in the spotlight with few opportunities for greatness. This is not a moment to judge.

Players have been doing this for years and only now has someone noticed. Strange that.