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Old 11-04-06, 07:43 PM
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Saaw on the news today that Olympic archery is getting a cash boost as promised by Gordon Brown to train teams for the olympics. Details from BBC News:

Archery
Funding '06-09: £2,371,000
% increase in '06/07 on existing award: 66%
Gold medals available: 4
Team GB Max Squad size: 6

This has got to be good for the sport
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Old 11-04-06, 07:59 PM
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Saaw on the news today that Olympic archery is getting a cash boost as promised by Gordon Brown to train teams for the olympics. Details from BBC News:

Archery
Funding '06-09: £2,371,000
% increase in '06/07 on existing award: 66%
Gold medals available: 4
Team GB Max Squad size: 6

This has got to be good for the sport
Not if there going to spend the £2,371,000 on just six archers it isn't
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Old 11-04-06, 08:09 PM
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Not if there going to spend the £2,371,000 on just six archers it isn't
Hopefully that will include the sport as a whole, bringing on the juniors and good club shooters to National level.

I'm sure we all have faith in GNAS to manage it correctly...
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Old 11-04-06, 09:17 PM
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And, of course, if they fail to get a bunch of gold medals the funding will get rapidly slashed.

Much like some sports suffered after the Olympics...
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