Courageous Decision but Sport Should Not Be Asked to Foot Bill Comment
Evening Times › January 10, 2008
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THE bonfire of the quangos kindled by the Scottish government proved a damp squib yesterday. The government reneged on a promise to the electorate to abolish sportscotland. Yet it was a courageous decision, and one which, as sports minister Stewart Maxwell said, is in the best interests of Scottish sport. I agree, but I'd have admired him more had he simply admitted his party got it wrong. A reviewwas so overwhelmingly against abolition that he was obliged to heed sport's constituency.
Unfortunately, the Scottish Institute of Sport, which that same manifesto promised would have "primary responsibility for the elite athlete programme"was emasculated. It has passed into the control of sportscotland. Serving two masters, catering for the grassroots while being responsible for delivering services to world-class performers, may be beyond it.See the full content of this document
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Courageous Decision but Sport Should Not Be Asked to Foot Bill Comment
Disgracefully, sport will be asked to foot the bill for this government ...
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