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| Athletics Politics - Michael Johnson Interview |
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Michael Johnson being interviewed by Sue
Barker on BBC Television on 24th March 2006,
Day 9 of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
The British 4 x 100m Relay squad had just
failed to get the baton around.
The text over the interview has been added to
emphasise that UK Athletics are the problem.
Athletics in the United Kingdom is contested
under UK Athletics rules. As administrators,
UK Athletics should maintain a role of strict
impartiality between athletes, yet they fund
some and not others based on subjective
criteria. They assist some with medical
support and not others. The very existence of
UK Athletics undermines the bedrock of
fairness and equality for all in athletics.
They contaminate the environment have been
shown in the long term to harm more than they
help the athletes they seek to assist.
The AAA of England were the guardians of the
sport's values in England. UK Sport and Sport
England forced the effective closure of the
AAA's and have created a "Son of" UK
Athletics, called England Athletics who will
do as they are told, and have responsibility
for developing talent. What business does any
governing body have in identifying and
developing talent, unless it develops all
talent equally.
Athletes must be allowed to emerge naturally,
based on equality and fairness in
competition. If funding is available, it must
be distributed based solely on results in the
national championships in a transparent way,
not as the result of an interview or the
recommendations of a senior coach.
See:
www.british-athletics.co.uk SLASH foster
SLASH altern.pdf
for a paper presenting the way forward for
the sport of athletics.
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| Cal Athletics in Beijing - Part 1 |
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Jigar Mehta, a UC Berkeley alum, is in
Beijing and capturing a behind the scenes
look of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Here are
some of his notes that correspond to the
video. For more updates and information,
please visit http://calbears.com
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I landed at the Beijing airport at 2pm on the
day of the Opening Ceremonies, a full 6 hours
before they started. However, since I was
ticketless, I watched the opening of the 29th
Olympiad with a bunch of foreigners and
locals in one of several outdoor parks in
Beijing set up with television
screens.
The city felt alive, and even though we could
hear and see the fireworks in the distance,
we had only been watching it on a TV. How
awesome would it have been to be inside the
Bird's Nest.
That night back in my hotel as I was fighting
insomnia, a email landed in my inbox from a
fellow Cal Alum, who said that I should see
if his friend who was going to the Opening
Ceremonies had an extra ticket. It was a few
hours
too late, but I still gave Jason Lin ('01) a
call and met him the next day to hear about
his experience at the Opening Ceremonies.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Jason Lin, a California native, moved to
Shanghai, China in 2004 and now works for the
One Foundation. For more information about
the One Foundation, please visit:
http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/03/category-
catid-103.html)
Tags : UC Berkeley Cal Golden Bears Summer Olympics Beijing Swimming Wilson |
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