The Hong Kong Sports Development Board
is the statutory body responsible for the development of sport and physical
recreation in Hong Kong.
In 2001–02, the board received a government subvention of $190.5 million,
which included a contribution towards the Elite Training Programme for the HKSAR's
top athletes at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. The board allocated $109 million
to this programme
in 2001–02, to provide to 252 scholarship athletes high-level coaching,
squad training programmes, meals and accommodation, support in sports science
and medicine, education and career guidance and use of training facilities. The
key sports in the training programme are athletics, badminton, cycling, fencing,
rowing, squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing
and wushu. Separately, under the Disabled Sports Elite Training Programme, the
board provided $1.02 million to 15 athletes under the Individual Athletes Support
Scheme, and $0.5 million to the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically
Disabled
and the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Mentally Handicapped.
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