Road to Excellence Business Plan
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Attachment 3 - to Annex "A" Road to Excellence Business Plan For The Summer Olympic and Paralympic Sports April 2006 #Section# Road to Excellence Business Plan For The Summer Olympic and Paralympic Sports April 2006 Project Director and Author Dr. Roger Jackson OC, Roger Jackson & Associates Inc. Project Coordinator, Mentor and Guiding Spirit Mark Lowry, Canadian Olympic Committee Olympic and Paralympic Summer Sports Steering Committee The following individuals were the representatives of all 28 Olympic sports, the Paralympic sports, Sport Canada, the CPC and COC, and were invaluable in guiding this project. Alan Roaf Rowing Alex Gardiner COC Anne Merklinger Canoeing Cathy Priestner VANOC Charles Parkinson Volleyball Dan Smith Sport Canada David Bedford Water Polo Don Adams Equestrian Jean-Guy Ouellette Athletics Rob Needham CPC Gisela Vogel Recording Secretary Project Financial Contributors The Road to Excellence project was financed by the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Canadian Paralympic Committee, whose employees provided valuable additional support throughout the study. The tables and graphics depicting historical trends of federal government funding are from an unpublished monograph by Roger Jackson that was funded by the Norlien Foundation of Calgary. Most of the sport financial data provided in this Plan is derived from the 2005 review of the summer sports and Canadian Sport Centres by the federally sponsored Canadian Sport Review Panel. The author is indebted to these sources for their assistance. Contributors Claire Buffone Blair and Will Hu worked with the author from the inception of the project. Their skills, effort, counsel and good spirits were invaluable and very much appreciated. The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable advice and assistance provided by Chris Rudge and Alex Gardiner of the COC, Brian MacPherson of the CPC and by officials from Sport Canada, particularly Phil Schlote, Bob Price, Dan Smith and Lane MacAdam. The following made valuable contributions to various topics. Athlete Rewards Jim Page Coaching John Bales & Debbie Muir Competition Greg Rokosh Facilities John Paulsen Finance Roger Jackson Games Preparation and Environment Jim Page & Caroline Assalian Innovation Todd Allinger Leadership Roger Jackson Media Relations Jim Page & Jackie DeSouza National Centres/Sport Institutes Ken Bagnell NSO Organizational Readiness Debbie Muir Paralympic Issues Ozzie Sawicki & Rob Needham Provincial Development Victor Lachance & Judy Sutcliffe Recruitment / Talent Identification Gord Slievert & Drew Mitchell Sport Science/Medicine (PET) Ken Bagnell Team Sports Working Group The author is most appreciative to all these individuals and to the many others who contributed in such a collaborative way. 5 Terminology AAP Athlete Assistance Program of Sport Canada CAC Coaching Association of Canada CIS Canadian Interuniversity Sport COC Canadian Olympic Committee CODA Calgary Olympic Development Association CPC Canadian Paralympic Committee CSC Canadian Sport Centre CSRP Canadian Sport Review Panel F/P/T Federal, Provincial, Territorial HPD High Performance Director LTAD Long Term Athlete Development model MSO Multi-sport Organization NSO National Sport Organization OTP-2010 Own the Podium-2010 PET Performance Enhancement Team PSO Provincial Sport Organization SFAF Sport Funding Accountability Framework of Sport Canada SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats VANOC Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Table of Contents SUMMARY ..................................................................................................... 9 SECTION 1 – The Business Plan ...................................................................2 SECTION 2 – The Environment . The Current Environment .......................................................................3 2. Comparison of Canada and Australia ........................................................35 3. Paralympic Sport ...................................................................................39 . Common Characteristics of Successful Sporting Nations .............................2 5. The Future Environment .........................................................................3 . Interest of Canadians in Achieving Excellence in Sport ............................... SECTION 3 – Program Delivery . Podium ................................................................................................8 2. Roles of the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Governments .............................54 3. National Sport Organization Readiness ..................................................... Canadian Sport Centres and Institutes .....................................................7 SECTION 4 – Programs and Services . Coaching and High Performance Directors ................................................78 2. Athlete Support and Incentives ...............................................................88 3. Competition ......................................................................................101 . Team Sports .......................................................................................109 5. Sport Science and Sport Medicine .......................................................... 9 . Facilities and Equipment .......................................................................125 7. Innovation and Research ...................................................................... 29 8. Talent Identification and Recruitment ..................................................... 33 9. Games Preparation and Environment .................................................... 10. Media as a Performance Issue ............................................................... 9 SECTION 5 – Financial Summary ............................................................... 155 7 8 Summary Olympic and Paralympic Summer Sports Business Plan In April 2005, the 28 Olympic summer sports and the Paralympic summer sports, the COC, CPC, and Sport Canada decided to create a Business Plan that would guide the way to achieving excellence at the 2008 (Beijing) and 2012 (London) Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and the Steering Committee of the summer Olympic and Paralympic sports asked Dr. Roger Jackson to lead this work. This is an initial Business Plan, to start the process. It will see several iterations in the months ahead as we engage partners in the discussions, redefine issues and cost them more accurately. The implementation of this plan will establish, for the first time, a coordinated highly effective Canadian high performance sport system. With very strong and focused leadership in place, it will build effective partnerships with governments, sports and associated organizations. The result will be world-class programs, policies and financing that will place Canada amongst the top nations at the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are entering a new era in Canadian sport, one based on effective collaboration, accountability, goal setting, efficiency and collective action for the greater good. Our distinctly Canadian approach is based on establishing new, effective partnerships rather than on the efforts of a single agency, or agencies working independently. All existing funding partners must make changes in the way they contribute in order to harmonize policies and programs. Resource, jurisdiction and policy re- alignment by all partners is the gut of the new approach. GOALS Canada ranked 19th at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games with 12 medals, and ranked 3rd at the Paralympic Games in total gold medals. Based on the work of the Canadian Sport Review Panel, there is optimism that Canada can rebound from its Athens performance to place in the top 15 nations in the total medal count (with 18-20 medals) by the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and the top 10-12 at the 2012 Olympic Games (with 24-30 medals); and to place in the top five nations in the gold medal count at both the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games with 25 gold medals. The process of achieving this goal has started with the investment of $14.765 million of new ‘excellence’ funding from Sport Canada in 2005-06 for 28 targeted Olympic sport disciplines and $. million for 14 targeted Paralympic sports. In addition, the Province of British Columbia has contributed $5 million to initiate the program. The next stage, however, will require an additional infusion of support to a level proportional to that provided to the winter sport Own the Podium-2010 program where an additional $22 million per year is being invested in 14 winter Olympic and four winter Paralympic sport disciplines. Summary 9 OBJECTIVES The objectives of this Business Plan are to: a) establish a leadership structure (Podium) to lead, develop and manage the national high performance plan; and to give Podium’s leadership the authorities and tools required to implement it b) identify the funding, organizational and performance gaps that exist within the summer sport system c) identify the roles and responsibilities of each of the various funding and implementation partners in delivering the plan, and have them undertake these d) establish needed partnerships with governments, the COC, the CPC, corporate sponsors and others to assist in developing and implementing the plan e) accumulate the needed new revenue to meet high performance needs; to reorganize current funding priorities and sources; and to achieve long-term