The money being purposefully pumped into the winners explains the rain of medals from the British Olympic team.
Those Britons worried about their country's status after the June referendum to leave the EU will get some comfort from the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Britain finished second in the unofficial medal classification (based on the number of gold medals), ahead of China, and became the first country in the world to avoid the Olympic Leap.
65 British Team Medals at London summer Olympics in 2012 - were her the best result for a hundred years. 29 gold medals allowed the British to rise to third place in the unofficial medal standings, ahead of countries such as France, Germany, Russia, Japan.
Few expected a repeat of this success in Rio, as the success of 2012 was considered an unprecedented feat for the British national team.
In the past thirty years, the so-called "Olympic leap" has been observed in sports, which is demonstrated by the host countries: at the home Olympics, the number of medals jumps, and in subsequent ones it decreases to the previous level. This trend can hardly be completely attributed to the big money that the host country is pumping into its team, hoping that the athletes at home will show excellent results. It's just that no one wants to be a loser in their own country.
Expenditures are difficult to analyze and compare as countries are reluctant to publish data on sports funding. However, the BBC analysis showed that there is a direct link between the Olympic achievements in the UK and the amount of sports funding over the past 20 years. Both numbers have been on the rise since the 1996 Atlanta Games, when the British team brought back only one gold medal.
A reliable indicator of the quality of a country's preparation for the Olympics is the number of athletes in the national team. In addition, qualifications in some sports have been facilitated for the host country: places in rowing, football, gymnastics competitions are guaranteed, it is easy to get to the Olympics for track and field athletes, cyclists and swimmers of the host country. Obviously, both her athletes and her female athletes train more intensely to perform well at home.
This makes the current success of the UK national team all the more outstanding. The team that arrived in Rio was one third smaller than in London in 2012, but that did not stop it from winning 27 gold medals and just 67 medals. Something can be explained simply by luck. The British rugby players, who received an unexpected silver medal, made it to the quarterfinals due to a mistake by the Argentine team. Andy Murray, who won gold in tennis, took advantage of the relegation in the first round of his rival Novak Djokovic. Other countries were suspicious of the skyrocketing athletic performance in some sports, especially cycling. The British have not won a single gold medal at the 2015 World Cycling Championships, but have won six in Rio. (The representative of the national team explained that it was the Olympic medals that were the main goal of the British).
However, the main reason for the success of the UK team is good funding.
£ 350 million in national lottery revenues have been used to prepare the national team for the Rio Olympics. However, this money was received only by those who were recognized as capable of winning medals. Cycling, rowing and sailing, who brought in 26 medals in 2012, received 88 million in 2013-2017.
Potential champions received the best gear, equipment and training regimen. Weightlifting, fencing and archery, in which the UK has not won a single medal at the previous Olympics, received £ 8.8 million. This ruthless approach to funding athletes has earned the UK one gold medal for every 14 athletes on the national team, and is by far the best ever decision in the post-war period.
Sometimes poorly funded sports prove their worth. British gymnasts, who received just £ 1.8 million after the Beijing Olympics but won medals in 2012, hit a £ 14.6 million budget in 2013.
Max Whitlock, a 23-year-old athlete, won two gold medals in Rio and became the first Briton to receive a medal in gymnastics.
Obviously, a targeted investment pays off.
GREAT BRITAIN
50 pence 2016
"XXXI SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES, Rio de Janeiro 2016"
Obverse: Portrait of Queen Mother Elizabeth II to the right (the so-called fourth type). Text around: ELIZABETH ∙ II ∙ D ∙ G ∙ REG ∙ F ∙ D ∙ 50 PENCE ∙ 2016. Monogram of the portrait designer - JC under the portrait trim.
Reverse: In the center of the coin there is an image of a swimmer in the pool - a participant in the Olympic Games. Above the image is the inscription: "TEAM GB" (Team of Great Britain), the image of the Olympic rings and the logo of the Olympic Games.
Designers: obverse - Jody Clark, reverse - Tim Sharp.
Summer Olympics 2016(eng. 2016 Summer Olympics, the official name is the Games of the XXXI Olympiad) - the thirty-first Summer Olympic Games, held from August 5 to 21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Olympic football tournament began two days before the opening ceremony, ahead of all other competitions, and was also held in other cities of the country - Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Manaus, Salvador and São Paulo.
The application process began on May 16, 2007 and ended on September 13 of the same year. Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha (Qatar), Madrid (Spain), Prague (Czech Republic), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Tokyo (Japan), Chicago (USA), as well as St. Petersburg (Russia). In view of the receipt by Russia of the right to conduct Winter Games 2014 in Sochi, St. Petersburg withdrew his application. On June 4, 2008, four finalists were selected from the candidate cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Chicago.
The final vote for the city was held on October 2, 2009 at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark. All possible three rounds were used in the voting. After the first round, Madrid was in the lead, but then Rio de Janeiro received almost all the votes cast earlier for Chicago and Tokyo.
Rio de Janeiro has previously applied to host the 1936, 1940, 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics, but has never been one of the cities participating in the final vote.
Logo XXXI summer The Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro is designed by the Brazilian design studio Tatíl Design and presented on December 31, 2010.
The symbol is based on the stylized Rio - mountains, sun and sea in the form of winding lines, reminiscent of the silhouettes of dancing people holding hands. The logo is designed in the colors of the Brazilian flag - blue, yellow and green - and is intended to symbolize interaction and energy, harmony in diversity, the riot of nature and the Olympic spirit.
The mascots of the Games are two characters who represent the flora and fauna of Brazil. The mascot of the Olympic Games Vinicius has a yellow color and symbolizes the brightest and most widespread representatives of the fauna of Brazil, combining "feline flexibility, the agility of a monkey, the grace of birds." The character of the Paralympic Games Tom has become a collective image of the Brazilian flora, in his features you can recognize both the elements of the tree and the elements of the flower. The mascots are named after the 20th century Brazilian musicians Vinicius de Morais (1913-1980) and Tom Jobim (1927-1994), who were at the forefront of the Bossa Nova style.
The Olympiad flame was lit on April 21, 2016 at the Temple of Hera in Olympia. The Greek stage of the relay lasted for 8 days, until April 28 (April 27 and 28, the fire was in Athens), after which the fire arrived in Lausanne, where the IOC headquarters is located, and a day later - to Geneva.
Olympic flame
On May 2, a one-day visit to Colombian Bogota took place. On May 3, the Olympic torch arrived in Brasilia, from where the Brazilian part of the relay began. Within its framework, the fire visited more than 300 cities, including the capitals of all Brazilian states. On July 24, the fire arrived in the most populated city of the Southern Hemisphere - São Paulo. The relay ended on August 5, 2016 at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at the Maracanã stadium.
On summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a record number of participating countries took part - 206. Compared to previous games, Kosovo and South Sudan were added to the participants. Kuwaiti representatives acted as independent Olympic athletes under the Olympic flag, and the Olympic champion was awarded to the Olympic anthem, since on October 27, 2015, the IOC suspended the activities of the Kuwait Olympic Committee due to government interference in its work. In March 2016, the IOC officially confirmed that the 207th participant in the Games will be the refugee team, whose athletes will compete under the Olympic flag.
Medal test
| № | The country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | USA | 46 | 37 | 38 | 121 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 27 | 23 | 17 | 67 |
| 3 | China | 26 | 18 | 26 | 70 |
| 4 | Russia | 19 | 18 | 19 | 56 |
| 5 | Germany | 17 | 10 | 15 | 42 |
| 6 | Japan | 12 | 8 | 21 | 41 |
| 7 | France | 10 | 18 | 14 | 42 |
| 8 | South Korea | 9 | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| 9 | Italy | 8 | 12 | 8 | 28 |
| 10 | Australia | 8 | 11 | 10 | 29 |
| Total | 307 | 307 | 360 | 974 | |
In Rio de Janeiro, not only athletes and participating countries will compete, but also designers. Every year, scandals flare up over the form of the Olympic teams - it happened this time, when there were three countries at once. But today, on the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, we will see with our own eyes the parade uniform of the Olympic teams. Vote and choose the most beautiful one!
The latest hobby of modern fashion is sports, and the Olympics in this sense are the best reason for designers to demonstrate a masterful approach and an unusual look at current trends. The creation of a uniform for the Olympic team is a responsible and very difficult process, which takes an average of two to three years. The customer, as a rule, is the National Olympic Committee, so every detail of the uniform - from the choice of fabric to color, accessories and size of buttons on ceremonial jackets - goes through a tedious series of approvals.
WOMEN'S OLYMPIC TEAM OF GERMANY AT THE OLYMPIAD IN BERLIN, 1936. ONE OF THE FIRST UNIFIED OLYMPIC UNITS IN HISTORY
In addition, in the Olympic Charter there is a rule number 50, which strictly regulates appearance athletes. For example, participants in the Olympic Games cannot climb a pedestal in a watch, and the manufacturer's logo on clothing must be only one and of a certain size. Of course, the ceremonial uniform of the Olympic teams attracts most of all attention. As a rule, this is a suit with a club jacket. They began to be worn even before the First World War, and until the 60s, all Olympians appeared out of competition in such semi-athletic cut blazers with contrasting trim.
By the way, the dress uniform is not only a suit for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but also a suit for closing. In general, the dress uniform is the dress for all special occasions during the Olympics. At the same time, the ceremonial costume for the opening and closing ceremonies can be the same, or there can be two different ones. The richest countries, of course, can afford to make several ceremonial suits for different occasions - opening ceremonies (as a rule, this is the most spectacular costume designed for a show), closing ceremonies, official meetings with the president, dinners, etc.
PHOTO: MODELS DEMONSTRATE GREAT BRITAIN OLYMPIC FORM, 1964
The Olympic wardrobe is not only a dress uniform and competition equipment. It is very large and includes clothing for every athlete for every occasion. Participants in the Olympic Games are required to appear exclusively in the team uniform of their national team, they are prohibited from walking in their own clothes.
UNITED KINGDOM TEAM FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
The uniform for the British Olympic team was created by Stella McCartney, the “greenest” modern designer, supporter and propagandist. Tellingly, McCartney has worked with adidas, which recently moved away from plastic bags in their stores.
PHOTOS OF UK OLYMPIC TEAM IN ADIDAS BY STELLA MCCARTNEY
The uniform of the Olympic team of Great Britain is made of high-tech materials - this is, indeed, one of the most beautiful sports uniforms of the Olympic teams this year.
FRANCE TEAM UNIT FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
This is the second time that Lacoste, founded by the legendary tennis player Rene Lacoste, has created the uniform for the French Olympic team. is simply invaluable, and the athletic form of the French national team for the Olympic Games in Rio is the most obvious confirmation of this.
PHOTO: LACOSTE OLYMPIC TEAM FRANCE UNIT ALREADY ON SALE
By the way, Olympic uniform Lacoste is available to anyone - since May it has been sold in all the brand's boutiques.
TEAM CUBE FORM AT THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
“Viva Cuba Libre!” - I want to scream at the sight of the uniform of the Cuba national team at the 2016 Olympic Games. It is, without a doubt, the sexiest sportswear in history - and was created by the House of Christian Louboutin. It seems that after the lifting of the economic blockade and the opening of free entry to the Americans, Cuba decided to rebrand the country's image.
PHOTO: CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN OLYMPIC TEAM CUP
By the way, the photo shows only the dress uniform for the closing ceremony, so we look forward to the appearance of the Cuban national team at the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio today.
ITALIAN TEAM UNIT FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
The Italians have traditionally presented a stylish and relaxed uniform for their Olympic team this year. By the way, its creator is, therefore, it is not at all strange that the advertising campaign of the new form of the Italian Olympic team was presented in the form of a black and white photo shoot.
TEAM CANADA FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
This year, much praise is being given to the Canada team's kits designed by Dsquared2 founders Dean and Dan Keitena. As is the case with the British adidas by Stella McCartney uniform, the Canadian Olympic outfit made in the spirit of the latest trends -. This shape promises to be more popular than Kanye West's "raunchy" collection - elongated sweatshirts and hoodies with a "fish" tail and a maple leaf on the back look like.
USA TEAM UNIT FOR THE 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
Like the Cubans, the Americans showed the uniform for the closing ceremony - it was traditionally made at Ralph Lauren.
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PHOTO: US OLYMPIC TEAM RALPH LAUREN
As expected in Rio de Janeiro, the US Olympic team will appear in white pants and shorts, striped polos and club jackets in the colors of the American flag.
Time spending July 13-25, 1908
Number of disciplines: 26
Countries: 20
Number of athletes: 431
men: 431
women: 0
Youngest member: Victor Jacquemin (Belgium, age: 16, 130 days)
Oldest member: John Flanagan (USA, age: 40, 170 days)
Medal Winning Countries: United States (34)
Medal winners:
Mel Sheppard USA (3)
Martin Sheridan USA (3)
On the opening day of the Olympics, a thick fog hung over London, it was pouring rain, the cold chilled to the bone. There were few spectators, but the honorary box was filled with crowned and dignitaries: the English king Edward VII with Queen Alexandra, the ruler of Nepal, the Greek princess, the ambassadors of France, Russia, Italy.
For the first time, during the solemn parade, the teams marched under the national flags, and each one wore its own unique costume. At the previous Games, participants marched in sports uniform.
When the Olympics ended, tables of the counting of medals won by teams from different countries appeared in print (which later became a common practice).
The London Games presented the world with the "golden" Olympic formula: "The main thing is not victory, but participation!" She is often attributed to Coubertin. In fact, these words were uttered on July 19, 1908, by the Bishop of Pennsylvania during a service at St. Paul's Cathedral in honor of the participants in the Games.
Competitions in athletics at the IV Summer Olympics were held from 13 to 25 July. There were 431 athletes from 20 countries who competed for 26 sets of medals.
13 records were set in athletics.
For the first time, there were competitions in walking (3500 m and 10 miles), javelin throw (in two different styles), discus throw in the Greek style, running 5 miles (later replaced by a distance of 10,000 m) and mixed relay. The distance in the hurdle race became 3200 m, and in the team race it became 3 miles. The 60m, 200m hurdles, all-around, triple jump and 56-pound throw were canceled.
In athletics, the competition was held in 27 types (tug of war, which was part of the athletics program, is currently a separate sport). Long distance running (5 miles) and race walking (3500 m and 10 miles) have been added; the only time in the history of the Games was a mixed relay race (200 + 200 + 400 + 800 m), competitions in discus throw and javelin throw in the Greek style.
In a smooth sprint, not a single representative of the United States managed to win: South African Reginald Walker won in the 100 m race, and Robert Kerr of Canada won the 200 m race. In the 400m final, there was a scandal - American John Carpenter, who finished first, was disqualified for pushing Briton Wyndham Halswell. A re-race was scheduled, to which the other two Americans did not come out of solidarity, and Halswell became the champion, running the distance alone. One of those who refused, John Taylor, won the relay in the national team, became the first Olympic champion- African American.
In the middle distance race - 800 and 1500 m - the best was American Melvin Shepperd. The distance was won by representatives of Great Britain: Emil Voight (5 miles), Arthur Russell (3200 m with obstacles) and the national team (team run 3 miles).
The marathon distance was planned to be 25 miles (40.23 km). The start was made in Windsor, and at the request of the royal family, it was moved to the balcony of Windsor Castle, which increased the distance to 42.195 km. Despite the fact that at the Olympics of 1912 and 1920 the length of the marathon was different, since the Games of 1924 it was 42 km 195 m that became the classic marathon length.
During the race, an incident occurred that became one of the most high-profile events of the Olympics. The Italian Dorando Pietri, who took the lead a mile before the stadium, already at the stadium began to lose orientation in space, fell several times; with the help of a judge and a journalist (who was reportedly the writer Arthur Conan Doyle), he crossed the finish line, but was disqualified for receiving outside help. As a result, the American John Hayes became the champion (his result was better than that of the winners of the previous Games, although the distance became longer), and Pietri received a special prize - a golden cup - from the hands of the queen.
In hurdles, the Americans had an overwhelming advantage (Forrest Smithson in 110 m and Charles Bacon in 400 m became champions), and in race walking - the British (both distances were won by George Larner).
Most of the jumping events were won by the representatives of the USA: Harry Porter - high jump, Francis Irons - long jump, Alfred Gilbert and Edward Cook shared the championship in pole vault; Briton Timothy Ehern won the triple jump. 35-year-old American Rei Yuri, having won the high and long jump, became an 8-time Olympic champion.
In the throws, as in the previous Games, the winners were Americans Martin Sheridan (freestyle and Greek discus throws), John Flanagan (hammer throws) and Ralph Rose (shot put). Both ways in javelin throw were won by the Swede Eric Lemming, and he showed his best result in throwing with the Greek style.
Country
431 athletes from 20 countries took part in the track and field competitions.
The number of athletes is indicated in brackets:
Australasia (9) *
Austria (2)
Belgium (6)
Bohemia (3)
United Kingdom (126)
Hungary U19
Germany (20)
Greece (12)
Denmark (8)
Italy (12)
Canada (27)
Netherlands U19
Norway (11)
Russia 1)
United States (84)
Finland (15)
France (19)
Switzerland (1)
Sweden (31)
South Africa (6)
* Due to the fact that the Olympic Association of New Zealand was formed only in 1911, at the 1908 Summer Olympics, New Zealand athletes competed as a team with Australian athletes. This combined team competed as an Australasia team and won bronze in 3500 m race walking (Herry Kerr, New Zealand).
