The Sports Bureau (ID) said in a recent statement that the total budget of the five sports subsidies launched by the government this year is about 132 million patacas, with top three local medallists in the Asian Games, Paralympic Games or Hearing Impaired Olympic Games for two consecutive events will receive an additional monthly allowance of 3,000 patacas, the bureau said.
In reply to Lam U Tou’s written interpellation sent to the government in September, the bureau said that it is optimising the funding scheme of the bureau’s Sports Fund (FD) for athletes to participate in sporting events, and collecting the views from various sports associations, hoping to increase the opportunities for athletes to participate in sporting events.
The bureau said that the training subsidy scheme stipulates that the subsidy will be provided according to the athletes’ level. If an athlete wins a gold medal in the Asian Games, the maximum monthly allowance will be raised to more than 29,000 patacas, while winning silver and bronze grants the athlete an increased amount of about 23,000 patacas.
So far this year, 126 athletes have received financial assistance as elite athletes, 31 more than last year, and 132 athletes of local training teams have received financial assistance.
In order to enable local athletes to demonstrate the level of Macau’s competitive sports development on the world competitive sports stage, the government has been promoting local athletes to participate in large-scale international multi-sports games and international sports competitions under the name of “Macao, China” through various measures, and has also actively coordinated with the relevant arrangements made by the General Administration of Sport of the People’s Republic of China (GASC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), so as to continuously develop a wider development platform for Macau’s athletes.
The bureau will continue to provide a broader development platform for local athletes and help strengthen the integration of Macau’s competitive sports with the international community.
