SPORTSwww.sportsmanagement.co.uk INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT DEBATE VOLUME 13 Q3 Can sports clubs get adequate access to sports facilities? South Africa’s getting ready for the 2010 FIFA World Cup THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF SAPCA GROWING THE GRASSROOTS Encouraging youngsters into modern pentathlon chanceyour forglory We want disabled people to choose athletics and enjoy the opportunities it can bring Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE Ambassador of Aviva Parallel Success • Athletes with Visual Impairments • Dwarf Athletes • Manual Wheelchair Users • Athletes with Learning Disability • Amputees • Athletes with Cerebral Palsy Find out more... about how to get involved, visit www.uka.org.uk/grassroots/parallel-success or phone Marie Yates on 0121 713 8462 UK Athletics, Athletics House, Central Boulevard Blythe Valley Park, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 8AJ Phone: 0121 713 8462 or 07912 070624 EDITOR’S LETTER Getting motivated he 2012 Olympics are meant to be a catalyst for change, raising standards at elite level and T inspiring couch potatoes everywhere to dust off their sports kit and get back out there to do some physical activity. 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Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe – normally a mild mannered man – had an uncharacteristic outburst over our Wimble- don performance, calling it “embarrassing” and saying he will reconsider the future funding of tennis PHOTO: WWW.ACTIONPLUS.CO.UK Bradley Wiggins - a great unless more elite players emerge from the system: “Why don’t we have the production-line of players Tour de France result for Britain other countries do?” he asked the BBC. “We’re not succeeding at elite level and I want to know why.” e-mail: please use contact’s When it comes to mass participation, we must remember this is the first time sport has laid itself so [email protected] open. In years gone by, funding was channelled into sport with no meaningful monitoring taking place, SUBSCRIPTIONS so no-one knew if it was working. Now, thanks to Active People, we can see exactly what’s happening. 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