There was a great quote over the weekend from Steve Williams, the double Olympic champion and Leander Rowing Club captain that grabbed my attention: “You can’t buy gold medals but you do have to pay for them.” Linking that quote in with the last blog post, an article in the Times by Matthew Syed caught [...]
UK Sport is to indicate how they intend to use the 2012 budgets prior to the official announcement due this December. This has led to an interesting discussion about where this funding should go? Do we focus on medal prospects or should we invest across the board in ensuring that Great Britain fields a full [...]
Following on from last week’s piece about the cost of coaching is an interesting article from north of the border. Councillor Alison Johnstone from Edinburgh, a former East of Scotland 800m & 1500m champion, has gone back to coaching Athletics after a shortage of volunteers meant that children were being turned away from athletics clubs [...]
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