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More female coaches means more coaches which tends to be a good thing for the sport.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/55371552
Funding for the next Olympic cycle is announced, as expected monies will be given to basketball, squash and weightlifting that are under represented. What I didn’t see coming was the severity of the cuts to the core Olympic sports - athletics 10%, swimming 11% and gymnastics 10%. The swimmers and gymnasts in particular did superbly in Rio, I fail to see why they should be the ones to take the brunt when it comes to funding cuts.
Munday and Grainger talk of a more inclusive approach with more money going to sports that might be taken by kids in cities and towns, which has its merits, yet Sailing which only produced 3 medals in Rio and is participated in by barely anyone still receives more money than gymnastics and swimming
Olympic sport Amount awarded Archery £2,134,257 Athletics £22,175,520 Badminton £3,154,358 Boxing £11,395,507 Canoeing £12,108,836 Cycling £27,601,684 Diving £8,463,542 Equestrian £11,085,964 Gymnastics £12,510,990 Hockey £12,376,622 Judo £5,446,804 Modern pentathlon £4,391,183 Rowing £22,212,008 Sailing £21,338,088 Shooting £5,802,749 Swimming £16,590,017 Taekwondo £7,776,898 Triathlon £6,806,550 Comment
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I wonder if some sort of virtual assessment was done estimating how various sports might have done if Tokyo had happened this year. My guess is this would have suggested lesser results for gymnastics and swimming than in Rio. I'm not sure if you can justify a sport having higher funding leading up to 2024 based on great results in 2016 achieved by people who have largely gone off the scene 8 years later. I have no idea what the current prognosis for sailing is.
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