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POWER OF 10
(Extract from UK Athletics Powerof10 booklet)
About Power of 10
The Power of 10 is not just another initiative, or a list of athletics rankings,it's a
year-on-year drive for greater strength in depth across all events and regions in the United Kingdom, with the support of everybody in UK Athletics.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to drive up performance levels in every event, every region and every age group, although concentrating heavily on junior athletes . Which is why, each year leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games we will be setting ever increasing targets. We should have at least ten athletes in each region achieving times, distances, or heights better than those predefined annual targets.
It's our belief that this target-based system will help strengthen the breadth and depth of British athletics talent and reduce our reliance on a handful of brilliant individuals. It's a transparent process: if we're not meeting our targets, we know there is more work to do. To see the current target for your event, check out the ranking tables. Are you above the threshold?.
Get Involved
Setting the targets is the easy part, but it takes talent, dedication and support to reach them. We need to find and nurture more athletes and coaches with a drive to succeed deep inside them; single-minded individuals who are prepared to make sacrifices every day, who have the work ethic and determination to take them right to the top. Are you ready for the challenge?
Reward and Recognition
Power of 10 needs to be instilled with a real sense of purpose and value. Athletes, clubs and coaches must be inspired to achieve these targets. And when they do, they should be recognised for their work, applauded by their peers and supporters. They should feel pride, and determination to continue on the hard road to success.
What Now ?
On 7th November 2006 two major milestones were reached by the Power of 10 website, formed to stimulate performances to London 2012. It now has 200,000 performances by 35,000 athletes – mostly promising teenagers – that’s you lot !
You can sign up to receive regular e-mails and ensure that by raising your own standards and PB’s you will be helping to raise standards all over the South West and the UK ultimately leading to the Olympics in 2012 .
For further information, downloads, and to check rankings by way of event,
athlete or club, go to
www.powerof10.info
This can only work if all your times find the way onto the website. We do not have too many Mendip athletes shown at present but rest assured we will do all we can to forward some up to date times to them .This should happen automatically with major competitions but if not, let your coach know and hopefully we will have worked out by then how to do it !
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