{"id":6603,"date":"2020-11-11T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:11:01","slug":"football-told-to-follow-triathlon-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"Football told to follow triathlon example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s not every day that the relatively niche sport of triathlon gets compared favourably to football, and have a prominent mention in a national newspaper\u2019s column about the nation\u2019s favourite sport. But these are\u00a0strange times,\u00a0and thanks<\/strong><strong>\u00a0to sports writer\u00a0Sean Ingle\u2019s recent article\u00a0for<em style=\"font-size: 13px\"> The Guardian,\u00a0<\/em>triathlon is being held in\u00a0high esteem thanks to\u00a0recent\u00a0measures taken by\u00a0the\u00a0Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ingle challenges the morals of the decision many Premiership clubs have taken to furlough their backstage staff, rather than asking their stars to take a pay cut to weather the storm. This is a decision that has earned the clubs much criticism, with even health minister Matt Hancock stepping in with his opinion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his column, Ingle says that football would do well to learn from triathlon and the help and support the\u00a0PTO are showing their athletes:\u00a0\u201cThree weeks ago the Professional Triathletes Organisation announced it would increase its annual end-of-year bonus scheme from $2m to $2.5m, and immediately paid it out rather than wait until December.<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cRealising that triathletes lower down the food chain would need extra help, it gave the extra $500,000 in bonuses just to men and women ranked between 21 and 100 in the world. The world\u2019s top 10 have also committed to doing online appearances and exhibitions and donating all the revenue to lower-ranked triathletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ingle also cited\u00a0Sport England, who last week announced a \u00a3192m package to help grassroots sport, \u201cincluding a \u00a320m emergency fund with grants of between \u00a3300 and \u00a310,000 for sports clubs and community organisations, those vital but unappreciated capillaries in our society. That comes down to smart leadership. And it matters more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClick Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day that the relatively niche sport of triathlon gets compared favourably to football, and have a prominent mention in a national newspaper\u2019s column about the nation\u2019s favourite sport. But these are\u00a0strange times,\u00a0and thanks\u00a0to sports writer\u00a0Sean Ingle\u2019s recent article\u00a0for The Guardian,\u00a0triathlon is being held in\u00a0high esteem thanks to\u00a0recent\u00a0measures taken by\u00a0the\u00a0Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO).\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}