This BMX Gold Medalist Had To Crowdfund Her Olympics Bid
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BoredPanda staff Olympic athletes are going through what, for others, would seem like eternal suffering because they chose doing sports as a career path and it's one that is not easy to go through. It requires a lot of physical endurance as well as mental. And of course, you have to have money to be able to use equipment, train and be able to compete in competitions. But even lack of funds couldn't stop the British BMX racer Bethany Shriever from going to the Olympics. The United Kingdom stopped funding the female BMX racers to put the money into preparing the male team, but Bethany found a solution and now she has a gold medal around her neck.
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Without an infinite pot of money, unfortunately, these are the kinds of tough decisions that need to be made. This article fails to mention that once Bethany's talent was recognised by the head of British Cycling, he persuaded UK Sport to reallocate funding and she was brought back into the team. 38 38points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Great comment. A lot of errors in this article. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Andrea Purzycki Andrea Purzycki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. That's why I asked the question. Seemed like there was some holes in the story. 2 2points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Drew, you're not wrong, but you miss the point slightly. So long as money is allocated according to competition success, there is not much chance of DEVELOPING women's teams, which commonly are starting from a position of being secondary to men's. It's a funding trap that is holding many aspects of women's sport back. Money is necessary to encourage participation, and develop skills by paying for the best coaches, and indeed many other things that could take YEARS to be 'repaid' by success at international competitions. 4 4points reply Hugo Raible Hugo Raible Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Don't destroy BP's fake outrage posts with facts ;) 3 3points reply H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thanks for this, I was about to get very mad lol 1 1point reply Nicki Nicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This is good to know, because my son and I were super confused, because she was so AWESOME! 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, fuuuuck british cycling. 0 0points reply blugeagua blugeagua Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's still messed up for them to just assume only the men would pick up medals. It basically dismisses the talent of women. 0 0points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ultimately comes down to limited funds and return on investment with every Olympic sport making the case for top funding. They want medals. Simple as that. Doesn't matter if male or female. The British rowing team has had the worst Olympics since 1976. You can guarantee that the funding will be looked at with scrutiny and re-distributed to other areas. The reality is the sport winning the medals will continue with top funding. British BMX squad has brought back two Gold's, one silver and a Bronze. They are most definitely in line for more money. Success is always rewarded. 8 8points reply pasti lopez pasti lopez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago She has almost the same story with our Hidilyn Diaz(weight lifting) . The Ph Govt was not able to support her financially. So she trained with water jugs and transferred to another country. She was even accused of destabilizing the gov't. And now that they are both gold medalists. Politicians are quick to recognize them. 12 12points reply Victorialovespandas Victorialovespandas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Out Of the 376 athletes selected for the Olympics, Team GB took 201 female and 175 male athletes. In 2 of the new sports introduced sport climbing and skateboarding we only have female representation. Bethany's funding cut was clearly ridiculous but as already mentioned UK sport did reallocate her funding. The way lottery funding is allocated is brutal but claiming its sexist is a stretch. 11 11points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's not deliberately sexist, but the current UK funding model has a greater negative impact on female participants in traditionally male-dominated sports. The impact is less felt in "new" Olympic sports where participants are starting on a more equal basis. The problem with the funding model is it often 'traps' female teams in a secondary position, because they don't get the money to DEVELOP. This is a problem across all UK sports, not just an Olympic issue. Women's football, for example, attracts a tenth of the revenue of the men's game. It also attracts less than 30 percent of the media coverage that the men's game gets too. Funding is the key to securing equity for female participation in many sports and the current UK Olympic model is at best unhelpful, and at worst, actually a barrier to progress. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Drew Drew Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) The decision was made based on competition results, with the male team - at the time - looking more likely to pick up medals. Without an infinite pot of money, unfortunately, these are the kinds of tough decisions that need to be made. This article fails to mention that once Bethany's talent was recognised by the head of British Cycling, he persuaded UK Sport to reallocate funding and she was brought back into the team. 38 38points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Great comment. A lot of errors in this article. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Andrea Purzycki Andrea Purzycki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. That's why I asked the question. Seemed like there was some holes in the story. 2 2points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Drew, you're not wrong, but you miss the point slightly. So long as money is allocated according to competition success, there is not much chance of DEVELOPING women's teams, which commonly are starting from a position of being secondary to men's. It's a funding trap that is holding many aspects of women's sport back. Money is necessary to encourage participation, and develop skills by paying for the best coaches, and indeed many other things that could take YEARS to be 'repaid' by success at international competitions. 4 4points reply Hugo Raible Hugo Raible Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Don't destroy BP's fake outrage posts with facts ;) 3 3points reply H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thanks for this, I was about to get very mad lol 1 1point reply Nicki Nicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This is good to know, because my son and I were super confused, because she was so AWESOME! 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, fuuuuck british cycling. 0 0points reply blugeagua blugeagua Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's still messed up for them to just assume only the men would pick up medals. It basically dismisses the talent of women. 0 0points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ultimately comes down to limited funds and return on investment with every Olympic sport making the case for top funding. They want medals. Simple as that. Doesn't matter if male or female. The British rowing team has had the worst Olympics since 1976. You can guarantee that the funding will be looked at with scrutiny and re-distributed to other areas. The reality is the sport winning the medals will continue with top funding. British BMX squad has brought back two Gold's, one silver and a Bronze. They are most definitely in line for more money. Success is always rewarded. 8 8points reply pasti lopez pasti lopez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago She has almost the same story with our Hidilyn Diaz(weight lifting) . The Ph Govt was not able to support her financially. So she trained with water jugs and transferred to another country. She was even accused of destabilizing the gov't. And now that they are both gold medalists. Politicians are quick to recognize them. 12 12points reply Victorialovespandas Victorialovespandas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Out Of the 376 athletes selected for the Olympics, Team GB took 201 female and 175 male athletes. In 2 of the new sports introduced sport climbing and skateboarding we only have female representation. Bethany's funding cut was clearly ridiculous but as already mentioned UK sport did reallocate her funding. The way lottery funding is allocated is brutal but claiming its sexist is a stretch. 11 11points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's not deliberately sexist, but the current UK funding model has a greater negative impact on female participants in traditionally male-dominated sports. The impact is less felt in "new" Olympic sports where participants are starting on a more equal basis. The problem with the funding model is it often 'traps' female teams in a secondary position, because they don't get the money to DEVELOP. This is a problem across all UK sports, not just an Olympic issue. Women's football, for example, attracts a tenth of the revenue of the men's game. It also attracts less than 30 percent of the media coverage that the men's game gets too. Funding is the key to securing equity for female participation in many sports and the current UK Olympic model is at best unhelpful, and at worst, actually a barrier to progress. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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This 22-Year-Old BMX Gold Medalist Had To Crowdfund Her Olympics Bid After Her Funding Was Cut To Support Male Riders
Jurgita DominauskaitėBoredPanda staff Olympic athletes are going through what, for others, would seem like eternal suffering because they chose doing sports as a career path and it's one that is not easy to go through. It requires a lot of physical endurance as well as mental. And of course, you have to have money to be able to use equipment, train and be able to compete in competitions. But even lack of funds couldn't stop the British BMX racer Bethany Shriever from going to the Olympics. The United Kingdom stopped funding the female BMX racers to put the money into preparing the male team, but Bethany found a solution and now she has a gold medal around her neck.
British BMX racer Bethany Shriever had to go to the Olympics on her own funds as the UK government did not spare finances for the female team
Image credits: bethanyshriever Bethany Shriever is a 22-year-old British BMX racer who was invited to join the Olympic cycling squad. The problem is that preparing for the Olympics is very expensive and without government funding, this task is quite complicated. After the 2016 Olympics, when none of the female riders qualified for the Games, the United Kingdom decided that the female riders would not be supported financially for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and that money would be invested only into the male team. Image credits: bethanyshrieverShe launched a crowdfunding page and managed to collect the amount of money she needed to go to Tokyo
Image credits: PA But the Olympics is every athlete's dream and is considered the peak of their career, so Bethany saw a solution. She calculated how much it would cost to go to Tokyo to compete and launched a crowdfunding page back in 2019. Her parents helped her as much as they could and what is more, she worked as a teaching assistant in a nursery to reach the goal of collecting £50,000 ($70,000) needed to depart to Japan. What makes this story even more impressive is that it wasn't the only complication Bethany had to overcome. She has broken the same wrist three times and she had to recover from a tibia and fibula fracture that even needed insertion of metal plates into her leg. But she persevered and now she is an Olympic champion. Image credits: APAnd then she won the gold medal proving that every difficulty can be overcome
Image credits: AP She beat the two-time Olympic gold medal winner, Colombian Mariana Pajon, who was actually her idol. And now Bethany herself became an inspiration to many as she and her teammate Kye Whyte are Britain's first BMX medalists. Kye Whyte won a silver medal just ten minutes earlier and he told BBC, "I'm more happy for her than I am for me. That girl puts in some serious serious graft." Image credits: ReutersIt is a big win as she earned the first medal from BMX sports in British history
Image credits: PA Bethany told Sky News that she couldn't completely comprehend what just happened: "It is still surreal. I haven't had a chance to think about it, I haven't had a chance to myself since the race. I'm over the moon." It is truly quite surreal knowing the circumstances and it was a close finish-Bethany won by just 0.09sec. And she can be extra proud as she got there all by herself and the medal is certainly deserved.People loved everything about Bethany s story and felt that she very much deserved the win
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Without an infinite pot of money, unfortunately, these are the kinds of tough decisions that need to be made. This article fails to mention that once Bethany's talent was recognised by the head of British Cycling, he persuaded UK Sport to reallocate funding and she was brought back into the team. 38 38points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Great comment. A lot of errors in this article. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Andrea Purzycki Andrea Purzycki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. That's why I asked the question. Seemed like there was some holes in the story. 2 2points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Drew, you're not wrong, but you miss the point slightly. So long as money is allocated according to competition success, there is not much chance of DEVELOPING women's teams, which commonly are starting from a position of being secondary to men's. It's a funding trap that is holding many aspects of women's sport back. Money is necessary to encourage participation, and develop skills by paying for the best coaches, and indeed many other things that could take YEARS to be 'repaid' by success at international competitions. 4 4points reply Hugo Raible Hugo Raible Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Don't destroy BP's fake outrage posts with facts ;) 3 3points reply H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thanks for this, I was about to get very mad lol 1 1point reply Nicki Nicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This is good to know, because my son and I were super confused, because she was so AWESOME! 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, fuuuuck british cycling. 0 0points reply blugeagua blugeagua Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's still messed up for them to just assume only the men would pick up medals. It basically dismisses the talent of women. 0 0points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ultimately comes down to limited funds and return on investment with every Olympic sport making the case for top funding. They want medals. Simple as that. Doesn't matter if male or female. The British rowing team has had the worst Olympics since 1976. You can guarantee that the funding will be looked at with scrutiny and re-distributed to other areas. The reality is the sport winning the medals will continue with top funding. British BMX squad has brought back two Gold's, one silver and a Bronze. They are most definitely in line for more money. Success is always rewarded. 8 8points reply pasti lopez pasti lopez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago She has almost the same story with our Hidilyn Diaz(weight lifting) . The Ph Govt was not able to support her financially. So she trained with water jugs and transferred to another country. She was even accused of destabilizing the gov't. And now that they are both gold medalists. Politicians are quick to recognize them. 12 12points reply Victorialovespandas Victorialovespandas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Out Of the 376 athletes selected for the Olympics, Team GB took 201 female and 175 male athletes. In 2 of the new sports introduced sport climbing and skateboarding we only have female representation. Bethany's funding cut was clearly ridiculous but as already mentioned UK sport did reallocate her funding. The way lottery funding is allocated is brutal but claiming its sexist is a stretch. 11 11points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's not deliberately sexist, but the current UK funding model has a greater negative impact on female participants in traditionally male-dominated sports. The impact is less felt in "new" Olympic sports where participants are starting on a more equal basis. The problem with the funding model is it often 'traps' female teams in a secondary position, because they don't get the money to DEVELOP. This is a problem across all UK sports, not just an Olympic issue. Women's football, for example, attracts a tenth of the revenue of the men's game. It also attracts less than 30 percent of the media coverage that the men's game gets too. Funding is the key to securing equity for female participation in many sports and the current UK Olympic model is at best unhelpful, and at worst, actually a barrier to progress. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST Drew Drew Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) The decision was made based on competition results, with the male team - at the time - looking more likely to pick up medals. Without an infinite pot of money, unfortunately, these are the kinds of tough decisions that need to be made. This article fails to mention that once Bethany's talent was recognised by the head of British Cycling, he persuaded UK Sport to reallocate funding and she was brought back into the team. 38 38points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Great comment. A lot of errors in this article. 12 12points reply Load More Replies... Andrea Purzycki Andrea Purzycki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. That's why I asked the question. Seemed like there was some holes in the story. 2 2points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Drew, you're not wrong, but you miss the point slightly. So long as money is allocated according to competition success, there is not much chance of DEVELOPING women's teams, which commonly are starting from a position of being secondary to men's. It's a funding trap that is holding many aspects of women's sport back. Money is necessary to encourage participation, and develop skills by paying for the best coaches, and indeed many other things that could take YEARS to be 'repaid' by success at international competitions. 4 4points reply Hugo Raible Hugo Raible Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Don't destroy BP's fake outrage posts with facts ;) 3 3points reply H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Thanks for this, I was about to get very mad lol 1 1point reply Nicki Nicki Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This is good to know, because my son and I were super confused, because she was so AWESOME! 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yeah, fuuuuck british cycling. 0 0points reply blugeagua blugeagua Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's still messed up for them to just assume only the men would pick up medals. It basically dismisses the talent of women. 0 0points reply Pat Bond Pat Bond Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Ultimately comes down to limited funds and return on investment with every Olympic sport making the case for top funding. They want medals. Simple as that. Doesn't matter if male or female. The British rowing team has had the worst Olympics since 1976. You can guarantee that the funding will be looked at with scrutiny and re-distributed to other areas. The reality is the sport winning the medals will continue with top funding. British BMX squad has brought back two Gold's, one silver and a Bronze. They are most definitely in line for more money. Success is always rewarded. 8 8points reply pasti lopez pasti lopez Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago She has almost the same story with our Hidilyn Diaz(weight lifting) . The Ph Govt was not able to support her financially. So she trained with water jugs and transferred to another country. She was even accused of destabilizing the gov't. And now that they are both gold medalists. Politicians are quick to recognize them. 12 12points reply Victorialovespandas Victorialovespandas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Out Of the 376 athletes selected for the Olympics, Team GB took 201 female and 175 male athletes. In 2 of the new sports introduced sport climbing and skateboarding we only have female representation. Bethany's funding cut was clearly ridiculous but as already mentioned UK sport did reallocate her funding. The way lottery funding is allocated is brutal but claiming its sexist is a stretch. 11 11points reply Wilf Wilf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It's not deliberately sexist, but the current UK funding model has a greater negative impact on female participants in traditionally male-dominated sports. The impact is less felt in "new" Olympic sports where participants are starting on a more equal basis. The problem with the funding model is it often 'traps' female teams in a secondary position, because they don't get the money to DEVELOP. This is a problem across all UK sports, not just an Olympic issue. Women's football, for example, attracts a tenth of the revenue of the men's game. It also attracts less than 30 percent of the media coverage that the men's game gets too. Funding is the key to securing equity for female participation in many sports and the current UK Olympic model is at best unhelpful, and at worst, actually a barrier to progress. 0 0points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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