davek
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I dont see it as particularly welcome way forward for young athletes trying to achieve their ambitions.
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Shevin Keedy
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Is that not just one level that leaves you uneasy?
davek
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How do you mean?
Shevin Keedy
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Tokyo Olympics: Liverpool millionaire aiding GB's medal haul
Barrie Wells sponsored Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson after she failed to get funding.www.bbc.co.uk
That story leaves me uneasy on a number of levels.
davek
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Yes, sorry.
Level one: private citizen using his wealth for reflected glory.
Level two: the GB Olympic Committee policy of funding certain athletes to the hilt just to target gold and leaving others struggling.
I think 'level two' is the bigger problem than 'level one', because 'level one' only exists because of 'level two'.
I've always been uneasy at how funding is given out to sports. Encourages the proliferation of PEDs, because success is so paramount to get money.
I wonder how many athletes at these games dope - 70, 80% maybe?
davek
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Yes, private donors are only given room to get involved because the state has abandoned this elite level of sport funding.
And yes, people must be desperate to secure lottery cash and abuse their bodies for it.
Having to take PEDS or chummy up to a millionaire is outrageous, and those athletes wouldn't have to demean themselves like that in a better organised and run society.
davids
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Don't think there is a great will to find out, devalues the brand. Otherwise drug cheats would have had life bans decades ago.
grandjoeblue
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Tokyo Olympics: Liverpool millionaire aiding GB's medal haul
Barrie Wells sponsored Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson after she failed to get funding.
That story leaves me uneasy on a number of levels.
He sponsors KJT and a number of local athletes. He does it because he has good motives and hes a fan of athletics.
Lottery funding can only support a certain number of athletes. I know a local runner who was on lottery funding for years and in fairness they carried on supporting him for about 2 years when he was injured.
If they paid every 19 year old prospect 30-35 grand a year they'd run out of money pretty quickly.
davek
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Doesn't seem right to me.
grandjoeblue
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Its difficult I agree. Ideally you want to give the athletes as best a chance as possible. Mostly in athletics though it is about performances. If you get olympic qualifying times you get funded. Hodgkinson would normally have been on the funding but they haven't added anyone recently due to covid.
Its a relatively fair system they just need more money. Maybe take some away from the rowers.
davek
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I think it backs sure things or athletes they feel can ay least reach a final.
It also stratifies athletes into 'the worthy' and those deemed not.
Imagine what those kids who won medals at BMX and skateboarding must have felt like saying about a system that forced them to crowd source their entry to the Games? As much as they were elated they must have been spitting blood at the sheer injustice of it all...and that goes for the hundreds of other GB athletes who had to pay their own way when the state should be there for them.
Was just watching an interesting video with Neil DeGrasse Tyson about how science can help in the Olympics. He was talking with former Olympic champion hurdler Edwin Moses. They were talking about something I'd never thought of which is how hurdlers that lead with their left leg run less distance than those that lead with their right. Left leg leaders can hug the bend whereas the right leaders have to go further over so their trailing leg doesn't cross the lanes. When the margin of victory is so small it is a pretty important thing to take in to account.
why is the duck walk an olympic event
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