BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES PREPARATION

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BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES PREPARATION
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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• SASCOC is responsible for Team Preparation and
  Presentation
• SRSA
• Provides funding and logistical support to SASCOC
  for Team South Africa (annual grant)
• Provides funding and staff for the Hospitality
  Centre (Ekhaya)
• Assists with protocol issues

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BACKGROUND

• The Olympic Games are scheduled from 8 to 24
  August 2008 in Beijing, China
• There are 28 sports on the programme
• The Paralympic Games are scheduled from 6 to 17
  September 2008
• There are 20 sports on the programme in Beijing

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LOGOS
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FUNDING

• National Lottery Distribution Agency for Sport
• Sport Recreation South Africa
• Olympic Solidarity (IOC)
• Sponsors

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FUNDING

• Australia spent A200 million preparing their
  team for Athens and got a medal haul of 49 medals
• South Africa spent R60 million preparing their
  team for Athens and returned 5 medals

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OLYMPIC SPORTS

• Aquatics
• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Boxing
• Canoeing
• Cycling

• Equestrian
• Fencing
• Football (u/23 men)
• Football (women)
• Gymnastics
• Handball
• Hockey
• Judo
• Modern Pentathlon

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OLYMPIC SPORTS CONT.

• Rowing
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Softball
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo

• Tennis
• Triathlon
• Volleyball
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

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PARALYMPIC SPORTS

• Aquatics
• Archery
• Athletics
• Boccia
• Basketball
• Cycling
• Equestrian
• Fencing
• Football 5 a side
• Football 7 a side

• Goalball
• Judo
• Powerlifting
• Rowing
• Rugby
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Volleyball

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QUALIFICATION AND SELECTION

• Meetings are being held with National Federations
  to agree on the selection criteria for each sport
• Qualifying for the Games does not mean automatic
  selection
• The All Africa Games are part of the preparation
  process for the Olympic Games

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OPERATION EXCELLENCE

• Funded by SRSA from the National Academy budget
  to financially assist Athletes in their
  preparation
• 74 athletes currently on OPEX
• Athletes are graded into 4 categories
• Payments made to National Federations to pay
  athletes

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OPEX SELECTION CRITERIA

• Individual Sport
• Category one Potential Medalist
• Athletes who satisfy
  all or a combination of the following criteria
  will qualify to be included in category one
• Word Ranking 1 to 5
• Achievement of Medals at World Championships
• Assessment of performance in the year to date
• Category Two Potential Finalist (top 8 Olympic
  Games)
• Athletes who satisfy all or a combination of
  the following criteria
• Will qualify to be included in the year to date
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• World Ranking 6 to 10
• Achievement of a finalist or top 8 finish at a
  world Championship .
• Assessment of performance in the year to date.

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OPEX SELECTION CRITERIA cont.

• Category Three Potential Participant
• Athletes who satisfy all or a combination of
  the following criteria will qualify to be
  included in category three
• World Ranking 11 to 16
• Achievement of medals at Continental Events.
• Assessment of performance in the year to date.
• Category Four Development / Potential
• Athletes who produce encouraging results at
  continental and other equivalent Championships
  will be considered

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OPEX SELECTION CRITERIA cont.

• Team Sport
• Category One Potential Medal
• World Ranking of 1 to 6
• Achievement of medals at World Championships.
• Assessment of performance in the year to date.
• Category Two Potential Participants
• Achievement at Continental level
• Teams with at least 40 from the historically
  previously disadvantaged sector.
• Assessment of performance in the year to date.

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FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN FOR OPEX

• BREAKDOWN
• Category 1 R10,000.00 per month
• Category 2 R 7,000.00 per month
• Category 3 R 4,000.00 per month
• Category 4 R 2,000.00 per month
• Note Athletes liable for PAYE.

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OPEX DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN
  ATHLETES BLACK WHITE PERCENTAGE
MALE 47 21 26  62
FEMALE 27 8 19 38
TOTAL 74 28 45  
PERCENTAGE   37 63  
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Olympic Solidarity Programme

• Six athletes were granted scholarships under this
  programme as from 2006 2008
• Badminton Chris Dednam
• Gymnastics Celeste Visagie Richard Odette
• Judo Mathew Jago (Based in Morocco)
• Shooting Esmarie Wilson
• Table Tennis Theo Goghil (Based at HpC)
• Each athlete receives R2800 per month
• Technical Courses
• The following sports were granted an opportunity
  to capacitate their Coaches Technical
  officials,
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Boxing
• Cycling
• Equestrian
• Gymnastics
• Judo

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NATIONAL ACADEMY PROGRAMME

• Funding provided by SRSA (R16m including OPEX
  programme)
• Tender awarded to the highperformance centre at
  University of Pretoria (tender ends 31 March
  2008)
• Full range of support services offered to all
  sport on the Olympic/All Africa Games programme
• Athletes can either reside at hpc full-time or
  come in for training camps of no less than 5 days
• SASCOC monitors and tracks all athletes making
  use of the Programme

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RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME
Residential Programme Residential Programme
Sport No of Athletes Percentage Female Percentage Black
Swimming 10 60 30
Table Tennis 5 40 100
Triathlon 1 0 0
Taekwondo 4 50 50
Boxing 3 0 100
Canoeing 3 67 0
Athletics 9 22 44
Rowing 9 11 22
Total 44 31 43
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ACADEMY PROGRAMME
Individual Sport
Sport No of Camps No of Athletes
Archery 2 14
Athletics 4 23
Swimming 4 28
Badminton 2 14
Boxing 2 10
Canoeing 3 12
Cycling 2 12
Chess 1 7
Equestrian 3 7
Fencing 3 20
Gymnastics Artistic 4 20
Gymnastics Rythmic 3 10
Judo 3 10
Kickboxing 3 10
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ACADEMY PROGRAMME cont.
Karate 4 20
Modern Pentathlon 2 14
Rowing 4 14
Sailing 2 18
Shooting 1 18
Table Tennis 2 9
Taekwondo 2 10
Tennis 2 10
Triathlon 2 22
Weightlifting 2 10
Wrestling 2 14
Totals 64 356
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ACADEMY PROGRAMME cont.
Team Sport
Sport No of Camps No of Athletes
Baseball 2 20
Basketball Men 3 18
Basketball Women 2 18
Basketball Wheelchair 3 18
Goalball 1 8
Volleyball Indoor Men 2 20
Volleyball Indoor Women 2 20
Volleyball Beach Men 2 11
Volleyball Beach Women 2 11
Hockey Men 2 25
Hockey Women 2 25
Handball Men 1 20
Handball Women 1 20
Football Women 2 20
Totals 27 254
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OTHER

• SASCOC has successfully assisted participating
  National Federations in applying for funding for
  Olympic Games Preparation from the National
  Lottery Distribution Agency for Sport and
  Recreation

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CHALLENGES

• Late start for 2006-7 year (June 2006) and roll
  over requested for funding not spent
• Funding budget drawn up for 2007-8 for R17m
  without the inclusion of Paralympic squad
• Athletes assessed for improvement - ROI
• Need 4 year funding cycle
• Integration with SASCOCs academy system and
  national college
• Coordination of funding with NLDTF

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Insanity is doing the same things over and over,
and expecting different results
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