“Along with the expensive entry fee, when you turn up at the event you are bombarded by corporate sponsorship. “If you re going to charge so much, is there a need to have so much corporate signage all round the venue and all over the t-shirts?”
MARTIN DE RUYTER
Participants in Nelson s Sanitarium Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon gather in Tāhunanui s playing field for the event, normally held in March. Inequality was growing in sport overall, with “hefty” registration fees at sports clubs stopping some families signing up, McLean said. Youth sport should not be subsidising top athletes, he said. “I would have thought the emphasis would have been trying to get kids into sport, and making it affordable and cheap to get them in there.