BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES PREPARATION

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

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

LOGOS

FUNDING

National Lottery Distribution Agency

for Sport

Sport & Recreation South Africa

Olympic Solidarity (IOC)

Sponsors

FUNDING

Australia spent A$200 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

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

OLYMPIC SPORTS CONT.

Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Table Tennis Taekwondo

Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling

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

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

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

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 ChampionshipsAssessment 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 .World Ranking – 6 to 10Achievement of a finalist or top 8 finish at a

world Championship .Assessment of performance in the year to date.

OPEX SELECTION CRITERIA cont.

Category Three: Potential ParticipantAthletes 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 / PotentialAthletes who produce encouraging results at

continental and other equivalent Championships will be considered

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.

FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN FOR OPEX

BREAKDOWNCategory 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.

OPEX DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN

  ATHLETES BLACK WHITE PERCENTAGE

MALE 47 21 26 62%

FEMALE 27 8 1938%

TOTAL 74 28 45 

PERCENTAGE

  37% 63% 

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 Rowing• Note that each National Federation was granted R70 000 to conduct the

International accredited course.

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

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%

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

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

ACADEMY PROGRAMME cont.

Team SportSport 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

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

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 - ROINeed 4 year funding cycleIntegration with SASCOC’s academy system

and national collegeCoordination of funding with NLDTF

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