What does the funding mean to the Adcocks?
Great Britain badminton duo Chris and Gabby Adcock will now receive funding for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The funding now means that sports such as badminton will now receive the support that they need to compete in two years. On their blog they wrote;
- The news that Gabby and I would now benefit from the funding was such a welcome relief. Our sport will receive £630,000 before the Tokyo Olympics.
The pair believe that the news has given them the resources to build a support team around them, to benefit from in the long run. Chris and Gabby said:
- Essentially it will give us the ability to build a support team around us who can help us to actually benefit from our sessions, not just handle them and tick a box to say that yes, we’d completed each session, the Adocks added.
What next in order for success?
Looking forward, they believe that they will get what they need to succeed and will now focus on everything in order to get on the podium in Tokyo.
- We’ll be able to get what we need to strive for success without compromise. We want to achieve everything and now we don’t have to worry so much about things. We can just focus on what’s important, and only that will help us reach the podium in Tokyo, Adcocks concluded.
Chris Adcock also spoke about them having no boundaries and always wanting to perform to the best of their ability and that was always going to be the case:
- Some time we, and the whole of the performance squad, were left in the dark as to what this meant for our futures. Whilst this funding cut was serious, (bare in mind it meant that our performance squad was halved overnight), for Gabby and I we knew it would never stop us from trying to realize our Olympic ambition.