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Sport Review Process In parallel with the F-P/T government-led goal setting process, Sport Canada has been involved with other national funding partners, including the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), and the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA) with the implementation of a Sport Review Process for National Sport Organizations (NSO) strategic, high performance and financial plans. The COC initiated the first Sport Review Process (SRP) for Summer Olympic and Pan American sports in the fall of 2002, followed by the Winter Olympic SRP, which took place in May of 2003. The reviews of the Paralympic Sports, which included the CPC, followed shortly thereafter. Sport Canada provided assistance in the development of the SRP and collaborated fully in its implementation. Sport Canada was able to contribute the following funds that were dedicated to supporting the final preparation of athletes competing in Athens 2004 and Turin 2006: • $1 million to the Summer Olympic SRP and $350K to the Winter Olympic SRP to supplement the $4.8 million from the COC • $1 million to the Summer and Winter Paralympic SRP, which operated in parallel to the Olympic SRP, to supplement the $100K from the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) A COC strategic direction for the 2001-04 quadrennial was to focus programming and resources on the achievement of high performance results at international competitions. The Canadian Olympic Excellence Fund (COEF) was created as the funding model to support the high performance objective of achieving podium performances. More specifically, the objective of the COEF is to support: • Athletes/Teams/Coaches/Programs, which have the highest probability of achieving podium and Top 8 results in future Olympic Games and podium results at Pan American Games (Pan Am only sports) • Athletes/Teams, which have been identified as having future potential to achieve podium and top 8 results in future Olympic Games and podium results at Pan American Games (Pan Am only sports) The objective of the SRP for Olympic (and shared by Paralympic) sports was to conduct the following tasks: • Identify athletes, teams, coaches and programs with the greatest potential for international competitive success at future Olympic and Pan American Games (podium and Top 8 finishes) • Determine short term and long term athlete performance targets at the national level for the next Olympic Games, senior world championships and junior world championships, which will be re-assessed every two years • Understand each NSO’s plan for achieving international sport excellence in the future and consider possible solutions to the major gaps affecting success Athlete Performance and Sport System Targets, Evaluation, and Investment Page 16
• Provide recommendations for strategic and targeted investments for the support of athletes, teams, coaches, NSO technical programs and special projects, which can influence athlete success at future Olympic and Pan American Games The work of this SRP has assisted the F-P/T Work Group #4 in defining a specific set of athlete performance and sport system targets, as well as a process for monitoring and evaluating the targets and ensuring accountability to the funding partners. This process has also begun to clarify the needs of athletes, coaches and NSOs with regard to Multi-Sport Organizations and the Canadian Sport Centres. Sport Canada’s Excellence Strategy In parallel with the Sport Review Process, Sport Canada developed its own Excellence Strategy and a Gold Plan for Excellence. The basic principles of the Goal Plan were to establish realistic performance targets which would ‘drive’ the Sport Canada funding policies to focus the allocation of the limited excellence resources on a smaller number of sports which have demonstrated potential for future success across a broader spectrum of their development system and over a longer period of time. This approach was congruent with the COC’s Sport Review Objectives and contributed to both the development of the SRP tool and Sport Canada’s participation in the project. Subsequent to this, Sport Canada was successful in securing $5 million per year of new excellence funding and needed to plan how to best invest these funds. The main considerations were to find a means to minimize the impact on the existing sport funding practice while maximizing the impact of the new funds to contribute to future high performance excellence. To do this, it was determined that Sport Canada’s existing Sport Support Funding as determined by the Sport Funding and Accountability Framework (SFAF) would remain unchanged and that the new Excellence funds would be invested via a Sport Review Process or ‘look forward’ in both short term final preparation and longer term next generation or “La Releve” athletes that were hoping to compete for Canada in 2008 and 2010 and beyond. The focus for these minimal new funds was to be limited to Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic sports as it was anticipated that the performance goals for Canada would be oriented around Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was further determined that an egalitarian distribution of the new resources would not be possible given the amount of funding available. To have an impact in both the short and longer terms, it would be necessary to focus support on those best performing sports that could also demonstrate future potential. This new Excellence Strategy is completely congruent with the direction of the other national funding partners, particularly the COC. Role of the Provinces/Territories: The Canadian Strategy, however, requires that there be a complete engagement of the Provinces and Territories in the shaping and implementation of the new Excellence Strategy. With fourteen (14) signatories to the Canadian Sport Policy, the objective would be to secure the same level of ‘buy-in’ to the Excellence Strategy. To do so, it is clear that an effective approach would be for the P/T governments to develop a second level Sport Review Process type process that is congruent with what is occurring at the national level and considers similar factors. Ideally, P/T goals would be developed and a similar list of priority sports would be identified and supported. Athlete Performance and Sport System Targets, Evaluation, and Investment Page 17
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