We are writing to you all in the hopes that you could help us clear up any misconceptions about the level of funding we receive from our association.
We felt the need to do this after Tatianna Tarasova was the latest to imply on Russian TV that we receive millions of dollars in funding. She was not the first person to make this statement. We can categorically say that this is not the case.
WeI receive 70,000 pounds worth of funding per year (the award is officially 90,000, but 20,000 is immediately swallowed up by our association for the salary of the Performance Director and for the running of the office). The funding itself comes from UKsport which funds elite level sport in the UK.
Our funding has to cover all of our training costs including: coaching, ice time, costumes, travel to competitions,hotel accommodations, choreography, physio, video analysis, personal trainer etc.
We felt obliged to make this statement as we felt that this 'myth' had to be nipped in the bud. We also did not want anyone to be under the impression that we had somehow outspent our fellow competitors- many of whom are very well funded.
We hope you can help us in clearing this up.
Yours sincerely,
John and Sinead
We felt the need to do this after Tatianna Tarasova was the latest to imply on Russian TV that we receive millions of dollars in funding. She was not the first person to make this statement. We can categorically say that this is not the case.
WeI receive 70,000 pounds worth of funding per year (the award is officially 90,000, but 20,000 is immediately swallowed up by our association for the salary of the Performance Director and for the running of the office). The funding itself comes from UKsport which funds elite level sport in the UK.
Our funding has to cover all of our training costs including: coaching, ice time, costumes, travel to competitions,hotel accommodations, choreography, physio, video analysis, personal trainer etc.
We felt obliged to make this statement as we felt that this 'myth' had to be nipped in the bud. We also did not want anyone to be under the impression that we had somehow outspent our fellow competitors- many of whom are very well funded.
We hope you can help us in clearing this up.
Yours sincerely,
John and Sinead