….bronze for GB in the big ladies weight lifting;
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Paris Olympics 2024
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davek
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Great post mate.That view is actually incorrect Davek, Toyoko was funded less than Rio. And Rio had only £10m more in funding than Beijing which accounting for inflation according to the Bank of England inflation calculator. Means UK sport has received £100m less in the past decade.
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Historical funding figures
Explore our funding into summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic sport since 1997.www.uksport.gov.uk
Also you haven't taken into account certain medals are heavily based on investment such as cycling, equestrian, sailing. But the vast majority of countries have either won a medal in one or two sports or non at all. Data analysis done by university of Liverpool.
I'd say though that there's certainly been no falling off a cliff in terms of funding.
The one's that get on my nerves are the rowing team. They get most lottery cash and haven't done it this games. Also, rowing is a sport that attracts huge sponsorship because of the funding of elite university teams like Cambridge and Oxford. They should be made to stand on their own two feet and the funding they get from the lottery halved and spent on kids doing boulder climbing, skateboarding, BMX - growth sports in the Games and bearing decent returns.
I have to say that lad Roberts who won the climbing gold was my favourite moment of the Games, I think. No fanfare of trumpets, he just did his best and won gold and then took it in his stride saying he might get a couple of pints to celebrate!!
"They really are movin' really fast"
Thanks for your illuminating insight, most decorated Olympian Laura Kenny
Thanks for your illuminating insight, most decorated Olympian Laura Kenny
Not really . Last month my son was talking about Georgia Bell whom he’d come across in a work context and he was surprised that she wasn’t a full time athlete. The money is spread quite thinly in athletics and cycling, rowing and sailing ( ha!) get more lottery funding.
Billy Dean
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Good showing from GB overall though. Only USA and China have more medals over all
davek
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She gets Lottery funding. She said so last night. She packed her job in to go for the Olympics.
Delighted for her too.
Billy Dean
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Turnbull will be sleeping on his front for a few weeks by the look of it
grandjoeblue
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Only the USA really count overall medals. It's always gone by golds and we have been unlucky in some events. It's our worst Olympics for 20 years.
Cycling has underperformed massively. They seemed a bit arrogant suggesting they could win every event entered. Have they only won one event?
….i wonder if they take into account how much athletes can earn competing in their sports. The top athletes have Diamond League and appearance money, I expect Keely Hodgkinson has just become a very wealthy woman.
Toffe3m4n
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Ever been to Amsterdam mate?
Eh?!! Finucane is 21 , in her first Olympics and is coming away with three medals including a gold. Thats pretty outstanding I’d say , given the competition she’s up against just to get in the team I doubt she’d even be considered for selection if she “ lacks a bit of winners attitude” . She’s in a highly technical sport where experience and strength play a big part , both these will improve in her as she ages.