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Towards Excellence

Towards Excellence. What you need to be a champion?. You need talent and hard work. But you also need: Top coaching. Top facilities. Financial help. Help from sports science and sports medicine. Sports Councils and other bodies work to improve athletes in these areas.

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Towards Excellence

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  1. Towards Excellence

  2. What you need to be a champion? • You need talent and hard work. But you also need: • Top coaching. • Top facilities. • Financial help. • Help from sports science and sports medicine. • Sports Councils and other bodies work to improve athletes in these areas.

  3. National Coaching Foundation • It was set up by the Sports Council in 1983 to improve coaching skills. It includes: • Coaching Development Unit – this runs courses for coaches at all levels from beginner to advanced. • National Coaching Centres – they are based in universities around the country. • Champion Coaching – it is a scheme for after school coaching aimed at children aged 11 – 14 who show promise.

  4. Centres of Excellence

  5. Crystal Palace • It is in London and caters for a range of sports including athletics, swimming, boxing, martial arts and judo. • It is also a national and international venue.

  6. Bisham Abbey • It is in Buckinghamshire and mainly caters for tennis. • It also caters for football, hockey, squash, weight training and golf.

  7. Lilleshall • It is in Shropshire and caters for football. • It also does table-tennis, cricket, gymnastics, archery and hockey. • It also has a sports injuries clinic.

  8. Holme Pierrepoint • It is in Nottinghamshire and does watersports. • It has a 2000m regatta lake, ski tow ropes and a canoe slalom.

  9. Plas-Y-Brenin • It is in Snowdonia in Wales and does mountain and other outdoor activities including, climbing, canoeing, orienteering and dry slope skiing.

  10. National Cycling Centre • It is in Manchester. • It opened in 1994 and is the newest of the centres. • It boasts the largest indoor cycle track (velondrome) in the UK.

  11. Funding • Training and competing is very expensive. • The Sports Aid Foundation provides grants for top athletes. • Some athletes get sponsorship from business. • Some have to manage a full time job and training and just scrape by (Sir Steve Redgrave).

  12. Sports Science and Medicine • For a top athlete a change in training method or diet could mean the difference from coming first or last. • The sports council funds research in these areas. • The specialists advise the governing bodies and work with top athletes to prepare them for competition.

  13. Future Plans • The government want to create a British Academy of Sport. • This would bring together under one roof everything that’s needed to help athletes become champions. • A debate is going on as to whether to put it in one place or several smaller ones. • This debate started in 1995.

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