Since then, I've had more time to reflect and I stand by what I originally said and if a lot of things don't get better, I will pack it in and that's not me being a sore loser.

Concerns need to be raised for the benefit of the whole of GB archery - if we can push on, the funding will get there, if not, the sport goes back to no funding and fewer competitors.

The next three or four years are going to be interesting with London 2012 coming up - we should get more input into what we need to become world and Olympic champions.

I know I'm capable of winning Olympic medals, but I need to have the right support.

This is the first year since I turned senior in 2002 that I've not won a medal in target or field archery despite shooting better than ever.

That has been down to a lack of confidence and the mental side of things and things going on behind the scenes.

This year, everything was wrong in the build-up to the Olympics with the selections for the World Cup circuit.

If we bombed out in the first round of a competition, Peter would say don't worry - but confidence gets knocked if you're not doing well.

We need a do-or-die mentality - put everything in until your fingers bleed.

We weren't prepared properly.

I have no problem with Peter away from archery, but we have different methods within the sport.

Team morale was low at the Team GB holding camp in Macau but Peter said he expected that because of nerves and that it would be alright when we got to Beijing. But it wasn't and it was down to the team to try and lift ourselves when we should have been focusing on competing.

Since my quarter-final defeat at the Olympics, I have not spoken to Peter. He left for Korea straight after the competition; there was no de-brief as we have always had after every other event, which was a bit strange.

I have always worked with my own personal coach at home and things have always gone perfectly - I have always been in charge and every medal I've ever won I've done by learning how to approach different matches mentally.

This year, the confidence has been non-existant and by the time I was knocked out at the Olympics, it was the first time I had lost control in a match situation.

I want to emphasise though that I really enjoyed my first Olympics experience despite the problems.

We've got a meeting in October with all the British archers who competed at the Olympics and Paralympics which will hopefully sort some things out.

Before that I'm off to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace as part of the big parade through London with all the other British Olympians on 16 October, which I'm really looking forward to.

Away from the competition, I had a great time in Beijing, spending time with my mates and going to watch other sports.

The best was watching Beth Tweddle in the gymnastics - we went because we know a few of the gymnasts from training at Lilleshall - I've never been to a gymnasium hall, it was massive and the atmosphere was great, particularly when the Chinese were competing.

Beth was unlucky and, even though we didn't know much about the technical side, we thought her performance deserved third!

The athlete's village is not as mad as everyone makes out - there were a lot of people there who still hadn't competed when we had finished, so there is respect for everyone else.

It's a different story in the city though - the bars were rammed, mainly with Australians! I tended to stick with the archery lads and lasses from Australia, America and Canada as we all know each other through competing across the world - it was a brilliant experience.

Me and Larry Godfrey had a few good days enjoying ourselves but we had the option to come home a day early before the closing ceremony, so we did.

When I got home and saw the closing ceremony and the plane carrying the rest of the team, I thought it would have been nice to be on it, but then it was nice to arrive at Heathrow and slip through unnoticed.

Since I got back to Cumbria, I've had a bit of post-Olympics blues - out in Beijing we were living in a bubble and everything was done for you so we could enjoy ourselves and focus on our event.

But when we got back, nobody told us how hard it is to get back to reality.

I was back a couple of days before I resumed training and my next aim is to qualify for the British field archery team for the World Games next year.

Field archery is extreme archery - there is a course with 24 targets which can be up a cliff, down a cliff, or across a ravine and you shoot three arrows at each target. They are all different sizes and on day one you have to guess how far away they are. On day two, the distances are marked.

I use the same bow as for the target archery, just with lighter arrows - field archery has always been at my heart, I was number one in the world a few years back and I've won many medals including a World Games silver and World Team silver and I was also European junior champion.

I was hoping to be given a wildcard into the British team for the World Games as I used to dominate the sport, but they wouldn't accept me, so I'm training hard and I want to bang in some big scores at the first of two qualifiers next weekend in the north-east and prove a point.

Click here for GB team manager Hilda Gibson's response.

Alan Wills was talking to BBC Sport's Peter Scrivener.

It wasn't designed as a media occasion, yet in many ways it was significant for the light it throws on China, the IOC and the relationship between the two.

It emphasised what China expects from the Olympics. Chinese President Hu Jintao's speech made it clear China sees sport as playing a major part in the country's economic and social development and believes the Olympics can act as a bridge between China and the rest of the world.

The Chinese president used the event to lavish great praise on the IOC and president Jacque Rogge talking of the IOC's "guidance and warm support" for China.

Hosting the Olympics has been a century-old dream and the Chinese leadership feel a sense of gratitude and reverence towards the IOC which may be hard for us in Britain to understand. I cannot imagine our Queen expressing similar sentiments when the IOC session is held in London in 2012.

Combined with this, there is clearly a great Chinese desire to prove that it can do anything the West can. So as is common at such events, after the speeches came a cultural show.

I have been to many such IOC sessions over many continents over the years and generally the cultural show is a chance for the country to put on something that is unique to its own culture.

But the Chinese decided to go Western. On stage came the Chinese orchestra, dressed in tails, performing classical Western music. Had the air-conditioning not been working so well, I might well have thought I was watching the Proms at the Albert Hall.

The conclusion I reached was that China wants to show it can "do Western" and bears out the view of American academic Susan Brownell, author of What the Olympics Mean to China, that China is not arrogant as Westerners often think.

Instead China suffers from a lack of confidence and wants Western recognition of its abilities. I am no expert on classical music but talking to those who are, they agreed the performance was of the highest standard.

Power play

The presence of the Chinese president and the country's top officials and the way they treated the IOC underlined the unique nature of this organisation.

The IOC is the sporting equivalent of the Vatican if you like.

Like the Pope, the IOC has no armed forces but it can still issue visas which governments have to respect. So I, along with thousands of others who are accredited to the Games, have entered China on the basis of a laminated Olympic card.

Olympic officials will tell you with great pride how their meetings are used by governments to announce changes in policy. A year ago when the Olympic movement was in town the Chinese prime minister used the occasion to announce freer press laws.

Money matters

What may change in Beijing is the financial power the Americans have exercised over the Olympics.

Ever since the Los Angeles Games rescued the IOC from near bankruptcy in the mid-80s, the United States Olympic Committee has enjoyed a privileged financial status compared to other national Olympic committees.

It gets a top slicing of the money the IOC gets from its sponsors and its American television contract. Only after the Americans have taken their cut is the rest of the money is distributed to other Olympic committees.

Until now the justification for this has been that it is American companies that are providing the money so the US Olympic committee should benefit, but in recent years the IOC has acquired non-American sponsors, particularly Asian ones.

Over the next few days, talks will take place in Beijing about a new share out of the money. The IOC felt it had to come to China because it could not ignore it. It may leave Beijing with a new financial power structure reflecting the economic power of China and Asia in general.