Kyle Shewfelt linked to this good news story: Olympic athletes get gold in federal budget
Big increases in funding for high performance sport. They’re still adding up the numbers.
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Some had feared funding would be cut drastically as soon as public interest in the Olympics waned. But politicans bandwagoneered on huge popular support of the Games.