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[Other Sport] Basketball v Skeleton Bobsleigh
- Thread starter ManOfSussex
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Kalimantan Gull
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I have really enjoyed the Skeleton this morning, not a basketball fan, but I will say you've put across a good point.
Delving further I suppose, isn't the argument more the division of sport funding between the grassroots and the elite, i.e. is too much thrown at the elite and could more effort be made to get sponsorship, and is grassroots funding being targeted properly? No idea what the answer is, but 6.5m funding skeleton seems rather over the top.
Because it has the second largest number of participants of any team sport.in the country.
It's a sport favoured by the young, and esp young black males.
The NBA looks upon the UK as a 'cash cow' ripe for exploiting.
Any player(s) that were to properly make their mark over there, would turn the yoof of this country basketball crazy.
In an ever sedentary society where us old fogeys bang on about being 'out after breakfast till our mums called us in for tea' funding for sport shouldn't solely be based on nicking medals from incredibly small global talent pools, like rowing cycling and bobsleigh, not even bobsleigh, skeleton bobsleigh.
GloryDays
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Would you rather fund England winning the World Cup or the search of a cure for cancer?.... (Stay with me on this....)
If you want to fund Basketball you're really hedging your bets. Fail and you get very little back. Very little and money down. You have to develop sporting talent, and a lot of it. Lots and lots of money with little guaranteed success.
With skeleton you develop aerodynamic science....like with cycling. At Olympic level it’s more science than it is skill and that’s how you guarantee a medal count - more or less. And if you fail, you’ve still made headway. Scientific breakthrough cannot be undone. I’d be very surprised if the team behind the cycling success had not aided the sled sports in the winter Olympics.
That being said this is just my opinion with zero fact or reliable information.
If you want to fund Basketball you're really hedging your bets. Fail and you get very little back. Very little and money down. You have to develop sporting talent, and a lot of it. Lots and lots of money with little guaranteed success.
With skeleton you develop aerodynamic science....like with cycling. At Olympic level it’s more science than it is skill and that’s how you guarantee a medal count - more or less. And if you fail, you’ve still made headway. Scientific breakthrough cannot be undone. I’d be very surprised if the team behind the cycling success had not aided the sled sports in the winter Olympics.
That being said this is just my opinion with zero fact or reliable information.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
You win, I don't even know what that means...but I probably are cleverer than me
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
doh..typo ..should read ''but you''
I know
£6.5m over FOUR years. It's peanuts in the grand scheme of things.
How ever big it is in the UK it will never be on the levels in the US/Canada/Europe
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Whilst i generally agree with your comments, watching Michael Jordan play was like watching a supernatural being. It was totally mesmeric.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
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Kent's Lizzy Yarnold - Did East Germans feel as underwhelmed as this when they won all those weightlifting golds at the Montreal Olympics? I know I do. Well done though - I hope all the kids will be out skeleton bob-sleighing tomorrow morning having been inspired by her.
phoenix
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- May 18, 2009
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Just favourited by Maty 'not a basketball player' Ryan:-
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It seems like the basketball equivalent of Gross doing a Cruyff Turn.
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It seems like the basketball equivalent of Gross doing a Cruyff Turn.