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Swimming Australia CEO Mark Anderson Guarantees Swimmers Will Receive Bonuses

Swimming Australia CEO Mark Anderson has "guaranteed that national team swimmers will receive all financial bonuses they are owed after a spike in performance this year," according to Nicole Jeffery of THE AUSTRALIAN. A report earlier this month "suggested that Swimming Australia was struggling to meet financial obligations to its elite swimmers because the national team had performed above expectations after lean years" in '12 and '13. Anderson said that the national body would "honour all its commitments to both base payments and incentive bonuses for individual athletes." Anderson: "There's no risk to athlete payments. Athlete payments are guaranteed." Anderson confirmed that more athletes had "qualified at a high level" than the organization had forecast but that the national body was "making the necessary adjustments to the budget." Anderson said there were "no issues" with Swimming Australia's overall budget so the money was "available to shift into the athlete payments budget" and Swimming Australia Ltd. was "working through that process now." Under the incentive scheme, athletes ranked No. 1 in the world at the end of the year receive a bonus of A$15,000 ($13,200) with a "sliding scale down to eighth in the world" (silver A$10,000, bronze A$5,000, four to eight A$3,000) (THE AUSTRALIAN, 10/21).

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