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The Hong Kong Sports Development Board is the statutory body responsible
for the development of sport and physical recreation in Hong Kong. In
2002-03, the board received a government subvention of $188.4 million,
which included a contribution towards the Elite Training Programme for
the HKSAR's top athletes at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. The board
allocated $122.14 million to this programme in 2002-03, to provide to
314 scholarship athletes high-level coaching, squad training programmes,
meals and accommodation, support in sports science and medicine, education
and career guidance and use of training facilities. The key sports in
the training programme are athletics, badminton, cycling, fencing, rowing,
squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing
and wushu. Separately, the board provided $1.23 million to 13 athletes
under the Individual Athletes Support Scheme, and $0.5 million under the
Disabled Sports Elite Training Programme, to the Hong Kong Sports Association
for the Physically Disabled and the Hong Kong Sports Association for the
Mentally Handicapped. |
