At the start of the next four-year Olympic cycle in 2013, all athletes who receive funding from the Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) will be subjected to greater scrutiny and have to fulfil specific contract requirements in order to receive the funding.
Just after Beijing 2008, president Steve Stoute expressed disappointment with the small number of qualifiers and said the BOA needed to put mechanisms in place to take charge of athletes when they reached a certain level, to monitor their progress and have more control over those individuals.
“Exactly what I was talking about is basically materializing,” Stoute told the SATURDAY SUN yesterday afternoon in an interview.
“The steps that we are planning to take going forward, from the start of a new quadrennial after the Olympics, any athlete that we are funding, part of the contract would be that we want to monitor their performance and that they participate at the three regional games CAC [Central American and Caribbean], Pan Am and Commonwealth with a view to qualification for the Olympics,” he said. (SAT)
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