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The annual budget delivered on Tuesday included A$50 million
($37 million) toward the home 2018 Commonwealth Games on the
Gold Coast, most of which will be employed for security costs.
However, there was no additional funding offered for Winter
Olympic sports in the leadup to next year's Pyeongchang Games in
South Korea.
"While I am sure the 20 Commonwealth Games sports and their
athletes will be pleased with the additional one-off funding of
A$15.5 million for their preparation it’s a pity this assistance
is not permanent," Coates, who was re-elected president on
Saturday, said in a statement.
"With less than one year to go to the Olympic Winter Games in
Pyeongchang I’m very disappointed that there is no indication of
similar additional assistance for the Olympic winter sports,
many of which are currently receiving nothing.
"And there is no indication of any funding for those Summer
Olympic sports currently receiving nothing."
Coates, an IOC vice president and one of the most powerful
figures in world sport, has been at loggerheads with the
Australian Sports Council, the funding arm of the federal
government.
The veteran sports administrator accused ASC officials of
plotting against him last year and for installing Olympic hockey
gold medalist Danni Roche as a candidate to stand against him in
Saturday's presidential ballot.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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