Shooting gets an Olympic sized boost

[MrCetrizine]

I saw a story on the BBC website about badminton having its funding removed for the 2020 Olympics.

Looking at the list of 2016 v 2020 funding amounts shocked me though. Shooting has been given a massive boost in funding.

 

Olympic Sports funding

Sport Rio 2016 investment Tokyo 2020 investment

 

Rowing £32,622,862 £32,111,157

Athletics £26,824,206 £27,136,245

Sailing £25,504,055 £26,231,379

Cycling £30,267,816 £25,980,427

Swimming £20,795,828 £21,742,914

Canoeing £20,043,618 £19,035,169

Hockey £16,141,393 £18,018,945

Gymnastics £14,615,428 £16,688,060

Equestrian £17,992,600 £15,361,769

Boxing £13,764,437 £14,692,636

Taekwondo £8,053,837 £9,959,788

Diving £7,467,860 £8,805,908

Triathlon £7,457,997 £8,127,753

Judo £7,366,200 £7,575,680

Shooting £3,950,888 £7,028,124

Modern pentathlon £6,972,174 £6,649,932

Totals £274,465,541 £265,145,887

 

Full story...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/38260939

[les]

A good boost for shooting.

[Gundoc]

There has been some serious effort put into trying to find potential as well,

On a recent intake at the Army Dfundation College (800+ 16-17 yr olds) we had a team come down, they carried out a whole bunch of testing on the recruits to see who had the potential to go on and train for 2020 and beyond.

I believe a couple of them were identified as potential shooters.