Olympic program extended to Paris Games in 2024By Lee Hsin-fang and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerA program that supported Taiwan’s athletes in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics would continue after an initiative launched in 2018 for the Tokyo Games achieved record-breaking results, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said on Thursday. The nation’s athletes have won 12 medals in Tokyo, more than doubling the previous record of five in 2000 and 2004. To achieve this in the run-up to the Tokyo Games, the Sports Administration launched an initiative to prepare the nation’s athletes to “go for gold,” Su said. The Sports Administration program is also to cover early preparation for the 2024 Games, with a continuing annual budget of NT$300 million to total NT$2.1 billion after seven years, it said. From 2016 to this year, the Sports Administration’s annual budget rose from NT$8 billion to NT$13.4 billion, Su said.

Source: Taipei Times August 06, 2021 15:56 UTC