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Carl Sundquist
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"MagillaGorilla" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Something tells me that outside of the USOC (and the Chinese OC, I
>> suppose), there aren't these massive money gathering national olympic
>> organizations.
>
>
> I dunno...the Aussies get pretty gay about the Olympics, especially their
> track team. Every Olympics, seems like Australia has like 9 lawsuits in
> the que filed by riders who think they should be on the Olympic team, but
> weren't chosen. The Aussie national team program seems to put a lot of
> stock in the Olympics.
>
They may get fired up, but that's not necessarily reflected in thier
budgets. Also, the Aussies, Brits, et. al. get awfully fired up about the
Commonwealth Games, too. Far more than the US does about the Pan Am games.
That said, I don't know how much funding gets overlapped between the CG and
the OG. Further, in the US there is/was bonus money paid out to top placings
at world championships by the USOC, so the waters are fairly muddied..
But the essence of your point was direct and indirect funding of cycling via
respective national olympic committees and the IOC. I know that back in the
late 80's and early 90's the quadrennial budget of the USOC was about $400
million. Remember that a lot of nations were laughing at the US for bragging
about it's $40k superbikes:
http://www.olympics.com.au/files/46/AOC2004AnnualReport_web_version.pdf
states a Total Revenue From Ordinary Activities for the 2001-2004
quadrennium as $70,842,245 (Australian dollars)
Compare that with:
USOC budget projections call for $172M in revenue in '06
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sbd.preview&storyId=SBD2006020627
news:[email protected]...
>> Something tells me that outside of the USOC (and the Chinese OC, I
>> suppose), there aren't these massive money gathering national olympic
>> organizations.
>
>
> I dunno...the Aussies get pretty gay about the Olympics, especially their
> track team. Every Olympics, seems like Australia has like 9 lawsuits in
> the que filed by riders who think they should be on the Olympic team, but
> weren't chosen. The Aussie national team program seems to put a lot of
> stock in the Olympics.
>
They may get fired up, but that's not necessarily reflected in thier
budgets. Also, the Aussies, Brits, et. al. get awfully fired up about the
Commonwealth Games, too. Far more than the US does about the Pan Am games.
That said, I don't know how much funding gets overlapped between the CG and
the OG. Further, in the US there is/was bonus money paid out to top placings
at world championships by the USOC, so the waters are fairly muddied..
But the essence of your point was direct and indirect funding of cycling via
respective national olympic committees and the IOC. I know that back in the
late 80's and early 90's the quadrennial budget of the USOC was about $400
million. Remember that a lot of nations were laughing at the US for bragging
about it's $40k superbikes:
http://www.olympics.com.au/files/46/AOC2004AnnualReport_web_version.pdf
states a Total Revenue From Ordinary Activities for the 2001-2004
quadrennium as $70,842,245 (Australian dollars)
Compare that with:
USOC budget projections call for $172M in revenue in '06
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sbd.preview&storyId=SBD2006020627