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Aussie Olympics Boss Backs British-Style Lottery Funding Of Elite Sport Down Under
- Updated: November 28, 2016
Australia’s Olympic boss John Coates has backed calls for his country to follow Britain’s sport-funding model by creating an Aus$50 million lottery to help keep the Dolphins and their counterparts in other sports competitive.
Australia has long punched above its weight in many sports, swimming included. Indeed, even when the chips were down for five big hitters in the pool at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Australian swimming finished second on the medals table adrift the dominance of the United States.
Overall, however Australia has slipped down the medals rankings since Sydney 2000 just as Great Britain has risen and risen again to a record result at a home Games in London that was then topped at the Rio 2016 Olympics, the barring of Russian athletes in the mix but a …
