US Olympic & Other Training Centres

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As a subscriber to the US Olympics group, I received this mail:

Come Visit the U.S. Olympic Complex On Line!

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Have you always wanted to visit the U.S. Olympic Complex and see the U.S.

Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs? Now, thanks to usolympicteam.com,

even if you can't physically make it to the USOC Complex, you can view some of

the facilities and visit the U.S. Olympic Spirit Store on line. See the $8

million Olympic Visitor Center, which hosts approximately 140,000 visitors each

year and learn more about the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, numerous art

exhibitions and other Olympic memorabilia displays that are featured throughout

the Visitor Center, as well as tour times and other information about

America's Olympians. Come see the new pictures and learn more about the U.S.

Olympic Complex at:

http://www.usolympicteam.com/

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The equivalent Aussie Centre (which has larger and generally superior

facilities than the USOTC) is at:

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT

<http://www.ais.org.au>

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Curiously, neither site is very informative and both could provide a great

deal more information, research, training links, results, personalities and

so on. Many private or small commercial training facilities offer more

information. As websites, both have a long way to go before they become

helpful training partners to athletes all over their respective nations. The

roughly comparable websites for South African sports coaching and research

are also very rudimentary and of minimal value to athletes and coaches. Let's

see what the future brings as these sites develop.

Are there any Supertrainers out there who would like to share the websites of

National or Olympic Sports Training Centres from other countries? It would

be interesting to compare them.

Dr Mel C Siff

Denver, USA

Supertraining/