There are always winners and losers in the fight for funding and the reality is there is only so much to go around
In the post-footy, pre-cricket sporting otherworld of mid-November 2009, a review into public funding of Australian sport landed on the desk of the Australian Olympic Committee’s then-chief executive, John Coates. It was called the Crawford Report and its contents caused Coates a degree of consternation.
“This is an insult to some of our great Olympic champions,” said Coates in a fiery press conference, going on to describe the findings as “disrespectful”, “naïve” and “un-Australian”. Prior to the report’s release Coates had lobbied the government for a $100m funding increase to ensure Australia remained in the top five of Olympic medal counts. Instead report author David Crawford had effectively shot Coates and the AOC down by seeking to broaden “sporting success” to mean Australians’ fitness and participation in it, and medals, not so much.
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