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FIFA's Olympic Payments Set To Stagnate At $25M For '17-20

FIFA is "probably going to have to make do with the same size of financial contribution from the Olympic Movement" in '17-20 as it is getting in the present four-year cycle, culminating with the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to David Owen of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. The football body "looks set once again" to receive $25M -- the same as basketball, cycling, tennis and volleyball -- under a new revenue distribution framework outlined last week during the SportAccord convention in Sochi. This would represent "no increase at all" from the previous Olympic quadrennium. By contrast, the contribution "leapt" from $14.3M to $25M between the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games. The pattern reflects a "marked slowdown in the rate of growth of sums raised from Olympic Games broadcasting rights." The biggest payment is "set, once again, to go to the bedrock Olympic sport of athletics," which is allocated $40M-$5.2M less than in the current cycle. The biggest cycle-on-cycle increases, of 28%, have been "earmarked for gymnastics and swimming," which will both get $32M. The cost of the Rio 2016 men's and women's Olympic football tournaments has been budgeted by FIFA at $17M, with the 2018 Youth Olympics in neighboring Buenos Aires allocated a further $3M (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 4/27). 

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