LMK, the decision made by the IOC in Singapore during early July of 2005 was that London would host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. This presented GNAS / AGB with the knowledge, back in July of 2005, that they would have a clear minimum of 7 years to prepare for the next qualification for an Olympic games once Beijing 2008 was over. The years of funding, planning, applied expertise etc. etc. etc. came into flower on the field in Copenhagen last month. The most entertaining aspect to the sport in the UK is watching to see just how poor things get before there is what you call "a complete rethink". If the reality of the implications from the results of Copenhagen with regard to Rio qualification has permeated through even the most sclerotic of mind sets then so will the realisation that the clock is already counting down for the Tokyo qualification. Four years; tick tock.
Sadly, LMK, I reckon a rethink will come but not because it is recognised that real change is required. Sadly, change is more probably going to be forced upon the sport by the loss of funding. That change, though, will be more about the abandonment of Olympic pretensions and the consolidation of target archery in the UK as a leasure activity.