Australia won 53 medals across 20 different sports. Outgoing IOC vice president John Coates says we can win even more.
Every time an Olympic Games comes around, Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond asks John Coates for his predictions.
Australia finished the Olympic Games in fourth place on the gold medal tally behind China, the United States and Japan.The performance was driven by female athletes who won 72 per cent of Australia’s gold medals, building on a trend in recent Games. Australia’s female athletes have outperformed their male counterparts at four of the past five summer Olympic Games.
Skateboarding received $1.4 million in high-performance funding last year and delivered two gold medals. All these sports also receive philanthropic and sponsorship support, but the high-performance funding gives some indication of how money can translate into results. That haul was “distributed” to other countries, he says. “Of the neutral athletes, they ended up winning four medals so that meant there were some 67 medals shared around,” he says.
“Beyond the record medal haul, Paris provided endless stories of triumph over adversity making us repeatedly hug strangers and that’s why the Albanese government is backing Australia’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes with a record investment of almost half a billion dollars into high performance sport,” she says.“There’s no use if you don’t continue it afterward,” he says. “The funding has to be in the pathway programs.
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