New facilities for elite aquatic sports at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre in North Adelaide will receive subsidies of $500,000 per year over the next two years to assist elite swimmers, divers, water polo players and canoeists and their clubs, allowing costs for athletes to be kept to a minimum.
Big boost for aquatics funding
August 14, 2008
The State Government today announced a new deal to help provide facilities for elite aquatic sports at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre in North Adelaide.
Under the funding deal, the Government will give the Adelaide City Council $500,000 per year over the next two years to subsidise the facilities for elite swimmers, divers, water polo players and canoeists and their clubs.
Minister for Recreation and Sport Michael Wright says this means the costs for our elite athletes can be kept to a minimum.
“We all get a buzz out of seeing the performances of our home grown athletes at the Olympics but they are only able to make it that far through considerable sacrifice,” Mr Wright says.
“We want to ensure that we support them by keeping the costs of training for their sport down.
“Success breeds success, so we hope as a result of supporting our current batch of elite aquatic athletes through these grants we will in turn encourage a whole new generation to take up these sports and push themselves to an elite level.”
Mr Wright says the deal for the Adelaide Aquatic Centre will help subsidise the cost of the facilities until the brand new State Aquatic Centre is built at Marion.
That centre is due to be completed by the summer of 2009-10 and is expected to attract major national and international swimming competitions.
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