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For the four-year Olympic boxing cycle that runs from Rio to Tokyo, GB boxing has been given more than £14m. Medals means money. Compare that to American amateur boxing, where the USA team from 1999 to 2015 were given $14m (£10.6m).
so the GB boxing set up has received £14m over 4years from 2016 to 2020
the US has only received $14m in 16 years from 99 to 15.
This is even worse when you consider at one stage the value of the pound to dollar was much higher, i remember buying US dollars at $1.9 to the pound around 2005.
so that $14m is more like £8-9m..over a 16 yr period.
This is a pretty sad story tbh.
I remember Angel Garcia talking about how bad it was at amateur level.
I also believe race comes into it. The GB set up, even without going to the olympics the likes of tony Bellew, BJS, Josh Taylor, Groves and many many more went through that system, they all trained in the same gyms around olympic coaches. From the uk perspective, amateur/olympic boxing is multicultural.
There aren't many white people in the US set up. I imagine a load of coloured kids..and therefore i imagine the US government not giving a single **** about them.
I also put this down to the fact that the US government used to spend heavily on athletes at olympic level during the cold war era to beat the Russians. Both the Russians and Americans were heavily into PED use. The fallout/bad press from that aswell as the lack of incentive there was during the cold war era...and deep down that race issue too prob led to the US government basically abandoning funded into olympic level boxing.
the US has 5x the population of britain and it was over a 16yr period. In comparison to that £14m figure the UK team have received, the US should have received £280m...not a measley $14.
you can imagine the number of facilities, state of the art equipment, coaches, sports scientists etc..right down to scouting talent that US amateur boxing has missed out on.
I know this sounds corny...but the US really is the land of rugged individualism and to make it through all of that..youve got to have a special quality about you.
honestly...ive got a little bit of extra respect for those elite american boxers who did make it through now and it explains why people would rather go through other sports where they have the coaches and facilities.
For the four-year Olympic boxing cycle that runs from Rio to Tokyo, GB boxing has been given more than £14m. Medals means money. Compare that to American amateur boxing, where the USA team from 1999 to 2015 were given $14m (£10.6m).
so the GB boxing set up has received £14m over 4years from 2016 to 2020
the US has only received $14m in 16 years from 99 to 15.
This is even worse when you consider at one stage the value of the pound to dollar was much higher, i remember buying US dollars at $1.9 to the pound around 2005.
so that $14m is more like £8-9m..over a 16 yr period.
This is a pretty sad story tbh.
I remember Angel Garcia talking about how bad it was at amateur level.
I also believe race comes into it. The GB set up, even without going to the olympics the likes of tony Bellew, BJS, Josh Taylor, Groves and many many more went through that system, they all trained in the same gyms around olympic coaches. From the uk perspective, amateur/olympic boxing is multicultural.
There aren't many white people in the US set up. I imagine a load of coloured kids..and therefore i imagine the US government not giving a single **** about them.
I also put this down to the fact that the US government used to spend heavily on athletes at olympic level during the cold war era to beat the Russians. Both the Russians and Americans were heavily into PED use. The fallout/bad press from that aswell as the lack of incentive there was during the cold war era...and deep down that race issue too prob led to the US government basically abandoning funded into olympic level boxing.
the US has 5x the population of britain and it was over a 16yr period. In comparison to that £14m figure the UK team have received, the US should have received £280m...not a measley $14.
you can imagine the number of facilities, state of the art equipment, coaches, sports scientists etc..right down to scouting talent that US amateur boxing has missed out on.
I know this sounds corny...but the US really is the land of rugged individualism and to make it through all of that..youve got to have a special quality about you.
honestly...ive got a little bit of extra respect for those elite american boxers who did make it through now and it explains why people would rather go through other sports where they have the coaches and facilities.
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