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After the relative paucity of medals at London 2012, there was an expectation that things would improve in Rio. Now that it appears they…
The first athletes to really notice the impact of climate change were those engaged in winter sports. Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014…
Amateur and professional sport historians have a tool that is revolutionising our understanding of how sport developed in Australia. That tool is Trove. Developed…
In May 2015, Football Federation Australia (FFA) published its Whole of Football Plan. Within that document it announced plans for the creation of a…
It got edited out, here’s the link – https://www.shu.ac.uk/~/media/home/research/sirc/finalsircsroienglandwebreport.pdf
We should never measure returns for sports funding in terms of gold, silver or bronze
Hang on, what’s this – “the author pays no tax” – I pay tax and have done so for a good many years and incidentally I have never received any pension, scholarship or other funding. What you also missed in the article is that funding sport brings benefits that more than recoup the expenditure. So what I am saying is reducing spending of yours and my tax dollars on sport will make us both poorer.
We should never measure returns for sports funding in terms of gold, silver or bronze
Those benefits do all come without necessarily gold medals, people can get as much happiness and pride, protect more open space, and keep kids off the streets through their local team as opposed to their national team. Swimming is one of Australia’s national iconic activities and sports – sure we could do better and there have been reviews aplenty to help that, but do we really want to ensure we never improve our swimming by reducing its funding. As Team GB has shown in London and now Rio high level investment gets result.
We should never measure returns for sports funding in terms of gold, silver or bronze
Funnily enough I do know someone who fits the bill, if only the job actually existed they’d be perfect 🙂
A library fit for a football museum
Nice article. Glad that Whitlam is being remembered for his support for Sport. His promotion of Frank Stewart to a Minister responsible for sport was a great thing, especially considering they were not ideologically aligned at all. Frank Stewart is still remembered at the AIS with a building in his name, not so his boss. However his legacy in sport as in so many other things is shown not by buildings and the like, but in the way we still do things.
Gough Whitlam: an unlikely sports hero
Interesting point you raise concerning the history of the Paralympics in particular its genesis as a sporting opportunity for veterans of WWII – given the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq there has been greatly increased participation by wounded veterans especially from the US (through the Paralympic Military Program) and UK (through the Front Line to Start Line Program and Help for Heroes) as well as the introduction of the Invictus and Warrior Games. Sport provides a great impetus to rehabilitation whether people are injured through accident or war – hopefully as troops are being withdrawn from the middle east we will see less of the latter in Tokyo 2020.
Rio Paralympics are a showcase of developments in medicine