Poster: A snowHead
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Top British snowboarder, Zoe Gillings, finished 7th at the World Championships in La Molina (Spain) this week, despite no funding. That's one place better than her position in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and she has no coach, no physio and no money. She has been unable to fly to 3 recent World Cup competitions because of a lack of funding too ...Source: http://blogs.news.sky.com/olympicsblog/Post:6ad98c90-6222-4fc9-a39f-ade81ca4c64c
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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i thought top 10 in olympics and worlds guaranteed you funding????
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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iskar wrote: |
i thought top 10 in olympics and worlds guaranteed you funding???? |
they probably have just had a meeting and decided you need top 5 now
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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daehwons, Actually I think they decided to only fund sports where they have achieved an Olympic medal
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This seems ridiculous!
In waterskiing when you join the Waterski & Wakeboard club part of your annual subscription automatically goes to helping our athletes! Unfortunately the UK Ski Club does not for some reason do this???
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I wonder how many tennis players get funding from UK Sport?
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i think if you check out the funding rules it doesnt state that, about medals, otherwise theres a lot of summer athletes who are going to get a surprise!!!!!
Is it true that the set up of SSGB and its selection is partly behind the withdrawing of funding?????(ie its not democratic and was 'installed' on the sport)?
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iskar, not sure but certainly SSGB doesn't seem to have come across very well with the whole sorry saga at the end of last year and now no money
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And today a top 6 in the World Under 23 XC championships.
So how about some funding for skiing and snowboarding targeted at our promising athletes like Zoe and Andrew.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I am appalled to learn this fact.
another case of chiefs eating the indians food.
someone out there should be ashamed
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D G Orf, iskar, SSGB went into administration last February. BSS was set up to allow athletes to race FIS races and became the new governing body. It has tried hard to secure funding from UK Sport for all snowsports. But the targets keep getting more difficult and goalposts keep changing. So no ticks in a target box means no money.
The don't give anything or futurepromise which is total madness.
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