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18-12-2012, 02:31 PM | #1 | |||
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a 43% increase on Paralympic spending, and 5% on overall spending. There's a live press release atm here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/20771943
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18-12-2012, 02:32 PM | #2 | |||
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Aiming for a target of 66 Olympic medals and 121 Paralympic ones... which is more than we received as hosts seems like an odd ambition, but meh, public funding on the increase is generally a good thing.
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18-12-2012, 02:33 PM | #3 | |||
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No funding whatsoever for basketball or handball though :/
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18-12-2012, 02:40 PM | #4 | |||
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I think 40 would be a more realistic target tbf.
We don't have crowd support that played a massive part and a couple of our gold medalist hopefuls are retiring/won't be competiting. |
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18-12-2012, 03:59 PM | #5 | |||
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thankyou sir alex
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Good. Id rather tax payers money go on things like this rather than keep racist hate clerics in the country
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18-12-2012, 04:40 PM | #6 | |||
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18-12-2012, 04:41 PM | #7 | |||
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Don't get why Judo has lost some funding despite it beating it's medal target, not fair on Gemma and Karina that.
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18-12-2012, 05:01 PM | #8 | ||
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oh fack off
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18-12-2012, 05:41 PM | #9 | |||
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no idea tbh, but the lack of funding whatsoever would suggest we're not entering anyone... unless an amateur feels like stepping up same applies for table tennis and wrestling
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18-12-2012, 05:48 PM | #10 | |||
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Handball is considerably easier to get better at so that should have at least had some money, Basketball there's no real point though behind USA Canada Spain Russia Israel
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18-12-2012, 11:09 PM | #11 | |||
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Handball is pretty big in countries like Sweden and Denmark and i doubt we'd get anywhere near as good as them anytime soon we were getting Embarrassed this year in just about every single match although maybe a small amount should have been put into it but at least it's had some sort of promotion in this country due to the Olympics, It's good to see Boxing getting such a big rise i think along with the obvious sports like Cycling and Rowing and Athletics that was the stand out sport for Britain at the Olympics
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18-12-2012, 11:23 PM | #12 | |||
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Jesus christ that is pretty high but i think we can get close and maybe even achieve it if there is a massive improvement in Swimming in the next few years, can't see it happening, Miley, Jemma Lowe, Halsall or Jamieson aren't good enough to challenge for Gold and other countries are getting better and better, some Polish guy even beat Lochte the other day, and Sailing we can improve on even without Ainslie at Rio we can't do any worse then we did this year, everyone apart from him were a complete failure
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