Quote (dro94 @ 22 Aug 2016 18:10)
You are disgusted by the UK because we found a way to fund our sport through a national lottery? It's a genius idea. By the way, Australia are doing the same now copying us, but they didn't do that well this olympics. So it's not just the money.
quote me please:
The BBC is passed overheated fashion for one week. His "Team GB" succeeds impressive Olympics garnered medal after medal, and commentators of the public channel are lost in superlatives and compliments.
With 60 medals, including 24 gold on the edge of Olympic last weekend, the UK occupies a surprising second place in the table of nations, behind the United States (105 charms) and ahead of France - same population even economic weight - seventh with nine gold medals.
The secret of success made in Britain? "It's simple: money," replies Steve Haake, director of Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. For twenty years, the UK has invested heavily in high-level sport: 274 million pounds ($ 316 million) just on the past four years for Olympic sports. That's five times more than it was twenty years ago.ultra-elitist system
Not since the humiliation of the Atlanta Games in 1996 to understand.
That year, the country finished 37th in the medals table with one Olympic title. The then prime minister, John Major, decided to intervene. Order is given to investment in
high performance sport much of the money from the National Lottery, which is normally used to fund charitable or cultural activities. The effect is felt quickly, and the United Kingdom moves to tenth place at the Sydney Games in 2000.
"But it has really accelerated in 2007, when London was awarded the 2012 Games," said Steven Haake. Funding has suddenly tripled, with an
ultra-competitive approach. No question of interest to the development of sport for all or amateur. Each funded discipline receives a numerical target for Olympic medals. The results are immediate: the UK finished fourth in Beijing in 2008 (47 medals) and third for "its" Games, four years later, with a record of 65 awards, including 29 titles.
This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Aug 22 2016 11:17am