GB doing well at the Olympics.

Papas1982 said:
As the link showed, the majority of funding goes towards getting the elite athletes into the best opportunity to win medals. Not helping all youngsters have a chance to get out and be active.

id much rather we spend all the millions helping every child become relatively fit and healthy than just the small Pearce tags become the best.

Whilst the the olympics is great to watch, nowadays most governing departments have financial targets to hit. I'm not sure that athletics really gives us any benefits for the money out in.

re the fa and their apparent threat towards their 30m funding. In the grand scheme of things. 30m is peanuts to them.
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Did you read the second link ?

The move will see Sport England’s remit changed from investing in sport for those aged 14 and over to supporting people from five years old right through to pensioners, in a bid to create a more active nation.
Investment will be targeted at sport projects that have a meaningful, measurable impact on how they are improving people’s lives – from helping young people gain skills to get into work, to tackling social inclusion and improving physical and mental health.
Funding will also be targeted at groups who have low participation rates to encourage those who do not take part in sport and physical activity to get involved. This includes supporting women, disabled people, those in lower socio-economic groups and older people. Sport England will set up a new fund in 2016 to get inactive people physically active and will support and measure participation in sport and wider physical activity going forward.

And in regards the FA and Football - £30mil is still more than any other sport and let's not forget how much they got to build Wembley plus how much money they get from other sources ?! Football is the richest sport
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Did you read the second link ?

The move will see Sport England’s remit changed from investing in sport for those aged 14 and over to supporting people from five years old right through to pensioners, in a bid to create a more active nation.
Investment will be targeted at sport projects that have a meaningful, measurable impact on how they are improving people’s lives – from helping young people gain skills to get into work, to tackling social inclusion and improving physical and mental health.
Funding will also be targeted at groups who have low participation rates to encourage those who do not take part in sport and physical activity to get involved. This includes supporting women, disabled people, those in lower socio-economic groups and older people. Sport England will set up a new fund in 2016 to get inactive people physically active and will support and measure participation in sport and wider physical activity going forward.

And in regards the FA and Football - £30mil is still more than any other sport and let's not forget how much they got to build Wembley plus how much money they get from other sources ?! Football is the richest sport
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Sorry, I comeplyetely missed the second link. I must have only seen the original which showed us geared towards Olympians and not much else.

think my point about football was missed. I full believe the 30m should be cut, whilst i wouldn't say it should necessarily used to improve our minority sports participation. Football is now a business which doesn't need/deserve government help.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
They were giving uniforms and somewhere to stay in the Olympic village - the same as every single other GB athlete who represented GB. In the grand scheme of things a couple of tee shirts , a bed and a couple of meals isn't really something worth getting worried about

The funding is 99% in regards allowing talented sportsmen and women the ability to concentrate on their chosen sport to allow them compete at these Olympic Games or World Champs etc
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A few shirts and a McD's now and then might just be underplaying it a tad

Don't know if there's figures but with over 350 competitors I'm thinking at least the same again in 'support crew', coaches, trainers, managers, committee folks and other assorted hangers on, we might be looking at 500 folk in addition to competitors who also traveled to Rio on the Team GB ticket

A months trip to Rio all expenses paid, including flights for 500 people, barest minimum I'd guess at £2k a skull because of Olympic village etc, that's a million right there not counting competitors
 
Slab said:
A few shirts and a McD's now and then might just be underplaying it a tad

Don't know if there's figures but with over 350 competitors I'm thinking at least the same again in 'support crew', coaches, trainers, managers, committee folks and other assorted hangers on, we might be looking at 500 folk in addition to competitors who also traveled to Rio on the Team GB ticket

A months trip to Rio all expenses paid, including flights for 500 people, barest minimum I'd guess at £2k a skull because of Olympic village etc, that's a million right there not counting competitors
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All that for 4 golfers?
 
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Liverpoolphil said:
All that for 4 golfers?
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:D Golfers are renowned for lapping up freebies and shiny things


Anyway it was you that said "They were giving uniforms and somewhere to stay in the Olympic village - the same as every single other GB athlete who represented GB. In the grand scheme of things a couple of tee shirts , a bed and a couple of meals isn't really something worth getting worried about"

Naturally no one's gonna get upset if they have to buy 6 chicken nuggets for Justin Rose's caddy now and again, but when he brings 499 mates 3x a day and they all want happy meals then you'd better up the limit on your CC
 
Slab said:
:D Golfers are renowned for lapping up freebies and shiny things


Anyway it was you that said "They were giving uniforms and somewhere to stay in the Olympic village - the same as every single other GB athlete who represented GB. In the grand scheme of things a couple of tee shirts , a bed and a couple of meals isn't really something worth getting worried about"

Naturally no one's gonna get upset if they have to buy 6 chicken nuggets for Justin Rose's caddy now and again, but when he brings 499 mates 3x a day and they all want happy meals then you'd better up the limit on your CC
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My response was in reply to a question about the four golfers talking funding - hence why I said they were given uniforms etc etc and it was just the players and caddies no hangers on etc so in the grand scheme of things what funding the golfers used was pretty much insignificant and as Murph has said Rose stayed in a hotel with his caddy so cost for Rose would be uniform

The funding was used for the athletes whose sport isn't full of millionaires able to fund themselves
 
The only people to have their money cut are ones who are good but unfortunately not likely to reach a final or win a medal. In effect the journeyman sportsmen who managed to make a living without threatening to ever win. Michael Johnson was always very annoyed about British athletes, sprinters mainly, who made a decent living, had flash cars etc, but never threatened to win anything. The whole system has become more ruthless but it does seem to be paying off.
 
Let's not forget the British Olympic Team is also sponsored for Rio, Nissan, Aldi's and Adidas to name a few, money from these will reduce the financial burden on GB Athletics and UK Sport.
 
Even with my love of mostly anything Olympics, I kind of draw the line at the walking races. I can see the logic for the long distance running as if you win you are, by definition, the fastest person in the world that is able to cover that distance under their own steam. But I just can't buy the fact that walking quickly is a noble endeavour, when you could run instead.
 
If there was a gold medal for "getting away with it" it'd have to go to the person who designed those awful rostrum shirts/sacks!
 
chrisd said:
If there was a gold medal for "getting away with it" it'd have to go to the person who designed those awful rostrum shirts/sacks!
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