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# British Olympic Association targets 2014 Winter Olympic success with new
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'winter institute'
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## The British Olympic Association wants to improve Britain's medal tally at
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the Winter Games by setting up an institute of winter sport to raise the
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standard of skiers, skaters and sliders.
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![British Olympic Association targets 2014 Winter Olympic success with new
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'winter institute'][1]
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Golden shot: Britain's only Winter Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams parades
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around Bath Photo: PA
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[![Simon Hart][2]][3]
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By [Simon Hart][4] 10:00PM GMT 15 Dec 2010
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[Comments][5]
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Talks are under way with UK Sport, the Scottish Institute of Sport and other
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agencies about bringing winter sports under a single umbrella to pool
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expertise and resources and create an entity attractive to sponsors.
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The BOA wants to emulate the model in Australia, where a concerted strategy of
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targeting key winter disciplines bore fruit at this year's Vancouver Olympics,
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producing their best winter medal haul yet - a tally of two golds and one
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silver.
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Britain's 52 athletes managed just a single medal, Amy Williams' gold in the
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skeleton, falling well below UK Sport's three-medal target.
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Andy Hunt, the BOA chief executive, said: "We have been underperforming in
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winter sports for an awful long time. Over 20 years and five Olympic cycles,
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our medal haul is one or two medals and it hasn't improved."
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He added: "We've taken variable number of athletes to each of those Games and
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we've always come out with one or two medals.
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"My feeling was that we should go back to basics to understand how we can do
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better. We're not an alpine nation but, regardless of that, there are
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opportunities we should be pursuing.
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"I particularly look at what Australia did after the Nagano Games [in 1998].
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They had a very similar profile and they said, 'Hang on a minute, there are
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winter sports which could produce medals if we cross-fertilise ideas from
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summer sports, like trampolining and gymnastics, to help a sport like
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freestyle skiing'."
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Winter sports, traditionally the poor relations of their summer cousins,
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received a boost last week when UK Sport announced that winter and summer
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disciplines would now be judged by the same criteria for Lottery funds.
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Previously, winter sports were fighting over a much smaller financial pot.
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The decision means an extra £4.8 million will be available to prepare for the
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Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014, though UK Sport's policy of
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rewarding only sports with medal potential means that the money will be shared
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by just four sports: skeleton, curling, women's bobsleigh and short-track
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speed skating. Cash-strapped disciplines such as luge, men's bobsleigh and
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cross-country skiing will not receive a penny.
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That is where the BOA believes a winter institute would help, creating a high-
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performance culture and raising much-needed funds for the have-nots of winter
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sport.
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It envisages a "virtual institute" along Australian lines rather than a
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bricks-and-mortar one, with a clear, coordinated strategy for winning Olympic
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medals. By pooling rights, the BOA also believes the institute would be
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attractive to sponsors.
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Hunt said: "Our belief is that there is significant potential, and money can
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then be used to make sure we're underpinning the Lottery money that will be
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going into winter sports in the future."
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Although the idea is still at the discussion stage, the BOA says it has the
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full backing of the governing bodies and it is hopeful it will be up and
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running for next winter.
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