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11 Australians put on a commendable showing in August 2014 at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games where we won 137 medals including 49 gold. Our female athletes continued to shinewinning more medals than the men and also winning more gold than any other nation. The achievements and efforts of our team were in many respects inspirational and did our nation proud. Our AIS continued its focus on helping elite sports and athletes to improve and achieve their goals. Since introducing Australias Winning Edge in 2012 the ASCand the AIS have made many profound changes in our support for elite sport by setting bold targets for achievement linking our investment to goals giving responsibility back to sports to run their own high performance programmes asking for greater accountability from them in return renewing the AIS reducing our operating costs substantially and reinvesting the savings in athletes coaches and high performance staff. This has required many hard decisions in relation to the ASCs own cost base but those decision have for example allowed us to maintain overall high performance funding grants and to increase financial support to athletes through our dAIS programme by 43 per cent to 12 million since launching Winning Edge. Outlook The successful rollout of the Sporting Schools programme will be a major focus for the ASC in the coming year as we look to ensure that more children actively take part in physical activity. To complement our Play.Sport.Australia. participation strategy AusPlay we will undertake the first-ever comprehensive national participation survey to better understand sport participation trends in Australia to inform policy decisions and guide sports strategy with a strong evidence base which has been lacking in the past. The Rio 2016 Olympics are now less than 12 months away. We believe the ASCsand AIS ambitious 10-year agenda for Australian high performance sport through WinningEdge is starting to produce dividends and we expect to see some evidence of that in Rio as a mid-term report card. Our swimmers are in a better place than they were in the lead-up to London our cycling and sailing teams continue to shine and many other sports are on the up. We think achieving a top five finish in Rio will require around 17-19 gold medals. The AIS currentprediction is around 9-12 Australian gold medals and about 40 medals in total. Wewill be extremely disappointed if we dont improve on our 10th finish in London given the way our athletes are currently performing but this is very much an art not a science and a lot of unpredictable and new factors will come into play in Rio. Once again we expect our female athletes to shine in Rio they have a very good chance of winning more gold medals than the men. With the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics on the horizon the ASC will work closely with itspartners to ensure that our athletes are well placed and supported to enable them to achievetheir best.