23 January (3)
There is no UK Sport funding for proper skiing, though ten other winter sports share £31m. Most cash goes to skeleton, the incredibly expensive sport where they have to finance a tea-tray and a helmet. Next is curling, that paradigm of athleticism, where just the gym work must cost a bit. The trainers (coaches), the trainers (footwear), the physios, the medics for these fearless heroes, risking life and limb at 3mph. They deserve the funding... Slopestyle, snowboard and short-track speed skating all get a fortune. Bobsleigh even. Perhaps the head of UK Sport said they needed a bob, and his secretary thought he said a few bob. So they got a few million bob...
But Dave doesn't complain. He said "it was a roller coaster of emotions but I've lead a few dry slope races back in the UK so its kind of the same thing."
23 January (3)
There is no UK Sport funding for proper skiing, though ten other winter sports share £31m. Most cash goes to skeleton, the incredibly expensive sport where they have to finance a tea-tray and a helmet. Next is curling, that paradigm of athleticism, where just the gym work must cost a bit. The trainers (coaches), the trainers (footwear), the physios, the medics for these fearless heroes, risking life and limb at 3mph. They deserve the funding... Slopestyle, snowboard and short-track speed skating all get a fortune. Bobsleigh even. Perhaps the head of UK Sport said they needed a bob, and his secretary thought he said a few bob. So they got a few million bob...
But Dave doesn't complain. He said "it was a roller coaster of emotions but I've lead a few dry slope races back in the UK so its kind of the same thing."