Good to see some honest replies I for one salute any olympian, and am always touched by the award ceremony, and the stories from some of the para team and how they've overcome adversity are humbling However.....I'm sick to the back teeth of the bbc and their inability to let it drop, the coverage on the news during the event was ott and fawning, and the news teams were practically wetting themselves with excitement every day during the event, while we were battered for weeks after with interviews ad infinitum Their coverage of the para events was fever pitch, and clearly driven by a political agenda focused on a diversity and inclusion theme, much as it is with any female-only event - example being women's football, which we all know is utterly shite, but the bbc continue to try and fool us into thinking otherwise Fuck off bbc, ramming your D&I left wing agenda down our throats every day and charging us for the privilege:Wtf:
And mens football is better ?,i would rather watch a bunch of kids on a Sunday morning than any premier leauge club,unfortunately even the kids game is now becoming a farce with them rolling all over the pitch just like there hero's.
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Be nice to know how paralympians from poor countries feel when lining up against the those in this country? hardly fair when one considers the amount of money ploughed into the GB team. I don't consider this good value either.Apparently the country is potless when it comes to funding proper education or social housing,but theres always plenty for taxpayer funded chest pounding: Team GB Cost £9,378,378.36 Per Medal Athletics £26.8m (from £25.1m) – 6 medals in London (hit target 5-8 medals) Boxing* £13.8m (£9.6m) – 5 medals (hit target 3-5 medals) Canoeing £19.1 (£16.2m) – 4 medals (hit target 3-4 medals) Cycling £30.6m (£26.0m) – 12 medals (surpassed target 6-10 medals) Diving £7.5m (£6.5m) – 1 medal (hit target 1-3 medals) Equestrian £17.9m (£13.4m) – 5 medals (surpassed target 3-4 medals) Fencing* £3.1m (£2.5m) – 0 medals (hit target 0-1 medals) Gymnastics £14.5 (£10.7m) – 4 medals (surpassed target 1-2 medals) Hockey £15.5m (£15.1m) – 1 medal (hit target 1-2 medals) Modern Pentathlon £6.9m (£6.3m) – 1 medal (hit target 1-2 medals) Rowing £32.6m (£27.3m) – 9 medals (surpassed target 6 medals) Sailing £24.5m (£22.9m) – 5 medals (hit target 3-5 medals) Shooting £3.0m (£2.5m) – 1 medal (hit target 0-1 medals) Synchronised Swimming £4.3m (£3.4m) – 0 medals (hit target 0 medals) Taekwondo £6.9m (£4.8m) – 2 medals (hit target 1-3 medals) Triathlon £5.5m (£5.3m) – 2 medals (hit target 1-2 medals) Water Polo*** £4.5m (£2.9m) – 0 medals (hit target 0 medals) Weightlifting £1.8m (£1.3m) – 0 medals (hit target 0 medals) Decreased Funding Archery £3.1m (£4.4m) – 0 medals (missed performance target) Badminton £5.9m (£7.4m) – 0 medals (missed performance target) Basketball zero funding (£8.6m) – 0 medals (missed performance target) Handball zero funding (£2.9m) – missed performance target Judo* £6.8m (£7.5m) – 2 medals (surpassed target 0-1 medals) Swimming* £21.4m (£25.1m) – 3 medals (missed target 5-7 medals) Table tennis zero funding (£1.2m) – missed performance target Volleyball** £400,00 (£3.5m) – missed performance target Wrestling zero funding (£1.4m) – missed performance * first year only guaranteed, remainder pending approval ** funding only for women’s beach volleyball *** funding only for women’s water polo. Total Budget of £347 million over 4 years which works out at around £86.75 million per year. By contrast TheU.S. Olympic Committee does not receive direct government funding for Olympic programs (except for select Paralympic military programs). The USOC’s main sources of revenue are television broadcast rights, sponsorships and philanthropy in the form of major gifts and direct mail income. Additional funding comes from the government for Paralympic programming, as well as other sources such as the city of Colorado Springs and the U.S. Olympic Foundation totalling around $154 million per year which is around £118.11 million. With this they managed to send a team of 554 athletes to Rio & win 103, 110, 101, 93 & 101 medals in each of the prior five Olympic Games vs. 65, 47, 30, 28 & 15 medals for Team GB. It thus cost Britain £237,021.86 per year to send one competitor to Rio against America’s average of £213,194.94 per year to send one Olympic hopeful to the same Games. Assuming Britain collect their average yield of the last 5 Olympic Games (37 medals) the cost per medal will run to £2,344,594.59 per medal. The United States would be expected – on the same basis – to pay around £1,162,500.00 per medal. That is Team GB spend more than double per medal what Team USA do.
There is no distinction in my mind,as I see the Lottery almost as a tax on working class people.(They buy the majority of tickets,but only get the crumbs when it comes to,"good causes").The Opera House in Covent Garden,Team GB,Arts projects and the maintenance of Lord Snootys country pile are not good causes,they are political-class ego trips that the poorest pay for,when they buy into the impossible dream of winning. I detested the way East Germany etc bought medals by throwing money and resources at sport while some sections of society go without,and I detest the way GB does the same. As a general rule I'm proud of being English first,(and then British),but the barefaced theft of success from poorer athletes and their countries by successive UK governments makes me cringe.
Please explain the difference @bradders It's still money which could have gone to GOOD causes. Perhaps though, good causes to me, are those that which I think are good causes ? (Which ain't sport)
Nobody asked me about this: "In November 2010, following public consultation, we increased the share of lottery funding that is given to the arts, heritage and sport back to their original levels of 20% each, and reduced the Big Lottery Fund share which goes to voluntary and community projects to 40%". So-called good causes: Arts Council England Policy Directions Financial Directions Big Lottery Fund Policy Directions Financial Directions British Film Institute Policy Directions Financial Directions Heritage Lottery Fund Policy Directions Financial Directions Sport England Policy Directions Financial Directions Sporting Legacy UK Sport Policy Directions Financial Directions
Bread and Circuses: Thompson, 61, who has headed Camelot for 12 years, says the National Lottery has spent £4billion directly on sport since 1994 and that 86 per cent of athletes in Team GB received some form of Lottery support. And she says the National Lottery will be contributing more in the next phase of British sporting development in the run-up to the Games in Rio than it has for London. ‘The proportion of Lottery money going into elite sport is increasing, even as Government money is coming down,’ she says. Read more: How National Lottery tickets funded Britain's Olympics success - Dianne Thompson interview | This is Money Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Lottery: privately funded operation that, without marketing and promotion may not take a penny. Who then have several committees that evaluate funds available and causes to support. Govt: take tax from those employed/with income above a given level. Distribute taxes to dept to support the infrastructure of the UK as well as aid etc. Will always take money. I pay into one (tax) and rarely into the other (lottety). While I may feel that it is a waste of money in an awful lot of cases, as I rarely contribute it has nothing to do with me. Hth @broke
excellent piece of research there , thank you,,, perhaps goes some of the way to explain why the massive coverage of our " success ", helping with the " feel good " factor while in reality the " fatasy isle " ( that is UK ) is failing..
