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Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame
Well I though the "own the podium" program was designed to inject a crapload of money into the olympic program in order to address the issues of funding for athletes.
Now they (the athletes) have received an extra 100+ million dollars and I suppose the "woa is me, i'm so poor" attitude will contine.
I feel like they've been given the funds, now show me the results.
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The increased funding and training is fairly recent, I think you will see real results on a longer term basis, if the funding stays at current levels. When you will see a big increase is when the younger athletes who are raised on this impoved olympic training program get 10 years of training and raised in a different culture of importance placed on olympic success.
If you take some guy who is 26-30, he has only seen maybe 4 years of the "own the podium" program.
A complete culture change wont happen for several olympics, and only if the program continues to be funded well.