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UNITED STATES oLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC CoMMITTEE
Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) serves as both the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States.
The USOPC is focused on protecting, supporting and empowering America’s elite athletes, and is responsible for fielding U.S. teams for the Olympic, Paralympic, Youth Olympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games, and serving as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic movements in the U.S. The USOPC is entirely privately funded through the generosity of the American public and the support of many commercial partners.
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE oF SPoRT
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is responsible for leading and enabling the Australian high performance system with the ultimate goal of helping athletes achieve international success.
The AIS drives innovative projects in engineering, sports medicine, research, wellbeing, sport science and more. This work includes the AIS Female Performance Health Initiative which were established in 2019 to improve female athlete specific knowledge and provide systems of support.
HIGH PERfoRMANCE SPoRT NEW ZEALAND
High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) work together with National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) to enable and empower world class performances that inspire New Zealanders.
To ensure repeatable success for New Zealand on the world stage, we partner with specific sports and campaigns. We focus on the performance pathways, wellbeing, engagement, and funding and investment for those sports.
In the daily training environment, we place carefully chosen teams of experts around elite athletes and coaches, and through a holistic and collaborative approach with NSOs, provide the additional resources, knowledge and inspiration needed to enhance their world-beating capability.
THE UK SPoRTS INSTITUTE
The UK Sports Institute (UKSI) delivers outstanding support that enables sports and athletes to excel. The UKSI is the largest single provider of world-class science, medicine, technology, data and engineering services within the sport sector to Olympic and Paralympic sports in the UK.
Established in 2002 and grant funded by The National Lottery and Exchequer (via UK Sport) since 2006, the support services the UKSI offers has expanded, from more traditional sports support such as medicine, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning, into services such as biomechanics, performance innovation and performance data.
Just as importantly, the UKSI operates as a network, connecting all these outstanding support services into one delivery system. By sharing challenges, information and breakthroughs across the UKSI network, sports benefit from the cumulative knowledge of all the people in the UKSI network and community.
