$14,300 Games costs

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33579, 6 July 1974, Page 42

$14,300 Games costs

It cost the New Zealand : Amateur Swimming Assoj ciation $14,300 to prepare its team for the Commonwealth Games, exploding the belief that sports have : few financial commitments ! when Games are held in ■ their country. i Details of the cost to swimming are made in the report of the association to be presented to the annual meeting in Christchurch at the end of the month. The association will doubtless consider the money well spent. It won seven medals at the games—two gold, a silver and four bronze.. The largest part of the! expense was the six-week training school before the! Games—s446s. The next!

largest expense was winter time trials—s 2792.

During the year the association had three other major tours. The world championships at Belgrade last September cost $6782, and the Australian age-group championships, which was attended by a team of 17 last March, cost $3234. The tour made by the Games medal winners—M. F. Treffers and J. W. Courts-and Misses J. M. Parkhouse and S. J. Hunter—to the CocaCola carnival in Leeds, and the West German indoor championships at Siegen in April—cost the association only $302. Grants from the sports and | irecreation council, and Coca-j Cola, almost covered the! cost of the tour.