funding cuts for British swimming confirmed
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London 2012 Olympics: British swimming to take funding cut after performance level sinks in Aquatics Centre
British swimming is braced for comprehensive coaching reform and a serious cut in its funding after underachieving at the Olympics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/swimming/9465270/London-2012-Olympics-British-swimming-to-take-funding-cut-after-performance-level-sinks-in-Aquatics-Centre.html
British swimming is braced for comprehensive coaching reform and a serious cut in its funding after underachieving at the Olympics.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/swimming/9465270/London-2012-Olympics-British-swimming-to-take-funding-cut-after-performance-level-sinks-in-Aquatics-Centre.html
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Surely means less chance to train young potential to Olympic standard?
How can they improve if the funding is cut?
Surely its more an admission that simply throwing money at our swimmers just hasnt worked?.
Other disciplines have reformed and reaped the success at these games, now its time for swimming to do the same....
Unless things are geared up to bring on young swimmers from an early age with real potential, then it's a waste of time.
If in any sport you are going to throw money at "the best we have" then it's doomed to failure. Funding should be used as a reward not as a carrot.
Listening to the women on BBC she said that this was brought in as money was not being spent wisely. Apparently gymnastics funding was cut after Athens & it led to a radical rethink of how they went about it. She said they regrouped & look what has happened. Increased funding will now go into the gymnastics.
If only the same rigours could apply to Govt departmental spending. The only measure seems to be how much they can fritter away!!!
2) the chairman of Sport UK was the TV about half an hour ago and said the discussions with individual sports and decisions on funding will not be made for another couple of months
But aside from that....
You weren't listening to what was said then. She said final decisions hadn't been made & a review would take place BUT then went on to talk about how money was dependent on results. She specifically then cited how funding for gymnastics had been cut after Athens based on their results. The message was loud & clear!!
You cant win in every sport, and there are easier sports to focus on like rowing, cycling and sailing. In swimming you are up against the might of China and USA for whom its a massive priority and you'll never beat them on any grand scale. Stick to sports like the 3 above, where China, Russia and USA dont focus, and you'll get the results. Its the same reason why GB should abandon track sprinting, its a bottomless black hole of money you'll never conquer
The trouble is that team GBs funding is set at an amount that in reality is going to fall due to inflation. so some sports have to lose money, if some are going to gain after the Olympics (Boxing, Judy, Gymnastics).
The trouble with the argument that less money means less success, is that its based on the assumption that money is the only issue.
As many have said we have done well generally in the swimming world championships recently, just not at the games, and that we didnt see any young up and comers in the tea. This suggests that the problem is not money, but maybe coaching or internal issues, which no institute is seriously going to look at themselves and make changes until they are forced to.
Watching the BBC interview was quite interesting, she basically confirmed that Swimming would see a funding cut, however, she brought up gymnastics which saw a funding cut a couple of years ago, because they just didnt have the talent pool for the funding they had, and see what happened. Isnt it only right that after getting their funding cut, making progress, and beating their target, they get a reward for that eg more funding.
I agree. Women on BBC specifically said one of the major achievements was the success across a wider no. of sports than Bejing & she wants that to continue. Funding is obviously going to be taken from swimming & given to these sports. Head of Boxing was sat next to her this afternoon & he has put in his bid for more!!!
Swimming has under-performed.
Give the money to more deserving disciplines - Gymnastics, Taekwondo, etc.
Yep, again. All speculation, no facts.
Why should swimming continue to get funding? They bombed massively.
Changes were always going to happen but I am not sure cutting money is the answer. The problem has to lay within the coaching and training programmes. Get that right and the results will come in.
I agree. She seemed to be more relaxed about the athletics as they have made great strides in sorting out under-performance. ie: work in progress. Swimming didn't appear to fit that category.
When did I say they should get funding
Throwing money at it isn't the answer either. Clearly it is time to take a step back & do a root & branches review. Less cash while this is going on.
The slight bias in your posts related to it.
If you say so.
I'm just asking for facts, not speculation, and I would ask the same if we were talking about say, Judo.
Its like me starting a thread called:
And linking to a article full of speculation and no facts.