CharliePotato
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What’s wrong with that?The Observer as usual keeping up it's high standards.
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summerisle
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The use of the indefinite article.
Black Belt Jones
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Good breakdown on the bbc site of funding per medal.
www.bbc.co.uk
Sport / funding / # medals / cost per medal
Skateboarding £197,725 1 £197,725
Weightlifting £238,900 1 £238,900
Boxing £12,084,436 6 £2,014,073
Cycling £24,559,306 12 £2,046,609
Swimming £18,731,645 8 £2,341,456
Triathlon £7,049,372 3 £2,349,791
Diving £7,223,280 3 £2,407,760
Equestrian £12,541,195 5 £2,508,239
Taekwondo £8,223,805 3 £2,741,268
Modern pentathlon £5,498,321 2 £2,749,161
Athletics £23,007,531 6 £3,834,589
Sailing £22,249,000 5 £4,449,800
Gymnastics £13,408,688 3 £4,469,563
Shooting £6,008,790 1 £6,008,790
Judo £6,564,334 1 £6,564,334
Canoeing £16,344,693 2 £8,172,347
Rowing £24,655,408 2 £12,327,704
Hockey £12,905,612 1 £12,905,612
Some highs and lows there and no mistake - LOL at 6 mill for shooting.
Athletics at 23 million seems kinda stingy given it's the centrepiece of the games? Spending more on rowing than athletics wouldn't be right if we were dominating, it's for sure not right when we're getting walloped left right and centre.
Tokyo Olympics: A look at how Team GB fared sport-by-sport compared to their funding.
How Great Britain fared sport-by-sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games relative to their funding.
www.bbc.co.uk
Sport / funding / # medals / cost per medal
Skateboarding £197,725 1 £197,725
Weightlifting £238,900 1 £238,900
Boxing £12,084,436 6 £2,014,073
Cycling £24,559,306 12 £2,046,609
Swimming £18,731,645 8 £2,341,456
Triathlon £7,049,372 3 £2,349,791
Diving £7,223,280 3 £2,407,760
Equestrian £12,541,195 5 £2,508,239
Taekwondo £8,223,805 3 £2,741,268
Modern pentathlon £5,498,321 2 £2,749,161
Athletics £23,007,531 6 £3,834,589
Sailing £22,249,000 5 £4,449,800
Gymnastics £13,408,688 3 £4,469,563
Shooting £6,008,790 1 £6,008,790
Judo £6,564,334 1 £6,564,334
Canoeing £16,344,693 2 £8,172,347
Rowing £24,655,408 2 £12,327,704
Hockey £12,905,612 1 £12,905,612
Some highs and lows there and no mistake - LOL at 6 mill for shooting.
Athletics at 23 million seems kinda stingy given it's the centrepiece of the games? Spending more on rowing than athletics wouldn't be right if we were dominating, it's for sure not right when we're getting walloped left right and centre.
Hibbo
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This is my favourite moment from Olympics in Tokyo: https://7news.com.au/sport/olympics...-womens-high-jump-at-tokyo-olympics-c-3623049
Rook
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grandjoeblue
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Good breakdown on the bbc site of funding per medal.
Tokyo Olympics: A look at how Team GB fared sport-by-sport compared to their funding.
How Great Britain fared sport-by-sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games relative to their funding.
Sport / funding / # medals / cost per medal
Skateboarding £197,725 1 £197,725
Weightlifting £238,900 1 £238,900
Boxing £12,084,436 6 £2,014,073
Cycling £24,559,306 12 £2,046,609
Swimming £18,731,645 8 £2,341,456
Triathlon £7,049,372 3 £2,349,791
Diving £7,223,280 3 £2,407,760
Equestrian £12,541,195 5 £2,508,239
Taekwondo £8,223,805 3 £2,741,268
Modern pentathlon £5,498,321 2 £2,749,161
Athletics £23,007,531 6 £3,834,589
Sailing £22,249,000 5 £4,449,800
Gymnastics £13,408,688 3 £4,469,563
Shooting £6,008,790 1 £6,008,790
Judo £6,564,334 1 £6,564,334
Canoeing £16,344,693 2 £8,172,347
Rowing £24,655,408 2 £12,327,704
Hockey £12,905,612 1 £12,905,612
Some highs and lows there and no mistake - LOL at 6 mill for shooting.
Athletics at 23 million seems kinda stingy given it's the centrepiece of the games? Spending more on rowing than athletics wouldn't be right if we were dominating, it's for sure not right when we're getting walloped left right and centre.
You wonder how the costs are so high. In the boxing there are less than 30 athletes on lottery funding. Its somewhere around £30,000 an athlete so thats not even £1m.
Coaches you'd guess would be below £1m too.
roydo
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Its over 4 years though. I think.
grandjoeblue
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That makes a lot more sense!
Lord Buckethead
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When does the Sheepdog Trials start?
I'd hate to miss it.
I'd hate to miss it.
Black Belt Jones
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I guess sports vary dramatically in terms of the fixed costs required (how TF do you spend 6mill on judo though in the UK?). Some examples do look ridiculous but I think overall it's huge impact / value for money - although saying that I'm not sure the link between funding elite sport and the health of the nation is all that strong. Reckon the annual operational costs of running some jarg premiership football outfit are more than that entire list combined.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Over a 4 year period, thats £1.5m a year. To support say 10 athletes, pay coaches, fund competition entries. Its not that outrageous.
Black Belt Jones
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It's not mate - I agree it's realistic if you want world class performance. Just with constrained funds it seems a gigantic amount in comparison to other stuff like athletics which is 100 times more relevant and popular / participatory than a niche martial art.
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roydo
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The lottery money has always been divied up in direct correlation to medal success/realistic expectation. So when Beth Tweddle got UK gymnastics up and running, the money came in, and now we have Max Whatshisname with Golds from 3 Olympics, and tons of others doing well.
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