What Price Skating Glory, Part 2: Institutional Funding | Two for the Ice
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Two for the Ice took its first look at athlete funding with the matter of prize money — funds distributed to skaters who rank highly at the ISU’s plum international events, from the Grand Prix to the championships. Now we’ll consider the more foundational base of institutional support — those funds provided by North America’s major national sporting bodies to ease the quite considerable burden of day-to-day training costs. That the sport’s own institutions provide financial support to athletes at many levels of achievement and age is an obvious boon but, like prize money, it can only stretch so far and so wide.