A ski marathon and the ice hockey finals...
including 38 gold, 30 silver and 29 bronze, spent $1 billion on the training of their national teams?The system of sports administration in Russia must be overhauled. Russia"s National Olympic Committee says that it is a representative body that has nothing to do with training athletes. As for the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, obviously it is too difficult for it to manage three sectors simultaneously; it has too many commitments and is overly preoccupied with getting as many medals as possible, neglecting its most important mission - to take good care of physical fitness and mass sport movement.
It is sports federations that should train athletes in their fields, as it is being done in the countries that did better and even those that did worse than Russia in Vancouver. It is also crucial that the sports federations are made completely autonomous and independent of double subordination.
Indeed, why should billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, the
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