A fundraising campaign has been launched by the sports crowdfunding
platform www.pledgesports.org to
help support Greek athletes to make it to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
"An Olympic
Games without founders Greece has never, ever happened – and we want to keep it
that way," the platform said, urging all fans and supporters of the
Olympic Games to financially support its athletes.
The campaign launched on 15 July will last
for 48 days and is called "Get Greece to the Olympics." All funds
raised will be given to the Greek Olympic Committee.
It is targeting to
raise funds to contribute towards the estimated €750,000 needed to get Greece's
Olympic team to the Rio de Janeiro "in top shape". The funds will
cover the costs of the extra competitions and training camps needed in the next
12 months to qualify and prime the Olympic team for the event.
““An Olympic Games without founders Greece has never, ever happened –
and we want to keep it that way.””
- www.pledgesports.org
It said the
federations and governing bodies do not have the money to train and prepare
Greek athletes for the Olympics.
The crowdfunding
platform noted how in the London 2012 Olympic Games, when the Hellenic Olympic
Committee received only half of the €30m it was promised, the International
Olympic Committee had to step in to get its teams to qualifying events.
"Your
contribution to this effort to cut into that cost, however small, could be the
difference between a Greek team being there to carry their flag into Rio de
Janeiro's Olympic stadium next August, or being at home in Athens, the place
where the modern Olympic Games were first held in 1896.
"Only five
nations have taken a team to every Olympics since that year, Greece, the
founders of the Olympic movement, is one of them," it said.
It says by pledging
to support the campaign, people are supporting a nation "that we think has
done more for sport than any other. I mean, they founded the Olympic Games
guys. It doesn't get bigger than that."
Donors to get
tokens
The page then went
on to say describe the history of the Olympic and what it means to Greece.
So far, the page
already has 11 supporters and has raised €285 with 47 days to go.
The platform is
offering the following for pledges of:
·
€5: Name will be added to the Hellenic Heroes under the Supporters tab
of the campaign page;
·
€10: a 'Big Greek thank you' on Facebook and listed as a supporter on
the campaigns page;
·
€20: 'Support Greek Olympians wristband;
·
€40 gets a "Support Greek Olympians" decked in blue and white
t-shirt; and
·
€50 will be listed as a supporter but no gifts will be sent out as it
ensures more money will go to the Olympic Team.
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