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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
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
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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