Επισκέψεις σωματείων.... συνέχεια

Στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο ξεκίνησε το πρόγραμα αναζήτησης ταλέντων για την Ολυμπιάδα του Ρίο.
Το μόνο κοινό με την Ελλάδα είναι ο χρόνος εκκίνησης του προγράμματος.
Οι διαφορές:
Αυτοί αναζητούν σε ηλικίες από15 με 22 ενώ εμείς 15(1995) και κάτω.
Αυτοί χρησιμοποιούν τους Ολυμπιονίκες τους Andy Triggs Hodge και Katherine Grainger , ενώ εμείς τους ρίχνουμε 3μηνους αποκλεισμούς.

Call for tall people to become Olympians

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13/01/2010 12:50 CET

A search for “exceptionally tall” men and women in Great Britain to compete in rowing at the 2016 Olympic Games has begun.
UK Sport’s Tall and Talented programme is aiming to find youths between the age of 15 and 22 with females over 180cm and males over 190cm tall, that have the potential to reach the medals podium in Rio de Janeiro in six years’ time.
This month British coach Steve Gunn along with a team of coaches and sports scientists will test a group of over 1000 hopefuls who have put their names forward for selection. Over the next six months a selection process will narrow down athletes to those who will be chosen to go into full-time training programmes.
GB Rowing’s press release stated: “Successful contenders will be invited to further testing and could eventually progress to the GB Rowing Team’s already-proven talent development scheme - the Start Programme, supported by the lottery sports fund and sponsored by Siemens.”
The Tall and Talented programme is being backed by a number of top British rowers including Olympic Champion Andy Triggs Hodge and Olympic medallist Katherine Grainger.
UK Sport has already used similar talent identification schemes to find elite athletes. The Sporting Giants scheme that began in 2007 had the aim of finding athletes to compete at the London 2012 Olympics and this scheme has signs of initial success at the top end of the sport. One of the successes is Vicky Thornley who started rowing under the scheme in 2007 and last year Thornley won gold in the women’s eight at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. This was the first British women’s eight ever to win a world title. Thornley is now setting her sights on making the London 2012 Olympic team.
Prior to Sporting Giants UK Sport initiated the World Class Start scheme. This scheme went into high schools and two ‘graduates’ of the scheme, Anna Bebington and Annie Vernon, became Olympic medallists at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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