Post-Sydney 2000 Australia: A Potential Clash of Aspirations Between Recreational and Elite Sport
Author(s)
Toohey, Kristine
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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The extent to which the Australia government values elite sport following the euphoria of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games is demonstrated through its policy and funding commitments. However, this forms only part of its overall responsibility to sport in a nation with a sport ethic that values success. As a relatively small country it has to balance the struggle to match the increasing budgets of its more successful international competitor nations, such as Great Britain, while confronting the problem of an increasingly unfit population which is more interested in watching than participating in sport.The extent to which the Australia government values elite sport following the euphoria of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games is demonstrated through its policy and funding commitments. However, this forms only part of its overall responsibility to sport in a nation with a sport ethic that values success. As a relatively small country it has to balance the struggle to match the increasing budgets of its more successful international competitor nations, such as Great Britain, while confronting the problem of an increasingly unfit population which is more interested in watching than participating in sport.
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Journal Title
The International Journal of the History of Sport
Volume
27
Issue
16-18
Subject
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
Sociology
Historical Studies