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5 The partnership with the Australian Olympic Committee and Australian Paralympic Committee through Campaign Rio is continuing to ensure that the coordination of effort remains firmly fixed on achieving the best performance outcome in Rio 2016. We are sure the overall high performance sector is headed in the right direction as is shown in the confidence we have that we will improve on our results and overall placing from London. With the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast now less than three years away the AIS looks forward to working with the Australian Commonwealth Games Association with ensuring Australian athletes are supported and prepared to again retain the status of number one Commonwealth nation in 2018. But in reality in cut-throat world-class competition being worlds best comes down to the smallest of margins which makes predicting the future imprecise. Predicted top 410 placed countries for Rio 2016 The only certainty is that the competition in Rio will be extraordinarily tough but we are equally certain the changes made to the Australian sports sector since London under Australias Winning Edge have our sports on the right track for long-term sustainable success. In 2014 the AIS oversaw the re-allocation of 20 million of high performance funding among sports increasing the share of funding to our foundation sports from 64 to 71 per cent and boosted direct athlete funding or dAIS by 3.6 million. We are building a more agile system under the Winning Edge to get the right support to the right sports and the right athletes and we are committed to making further adjustments to investments where there is a compelling case as Rio approaches. In 2014 we reviewed the national sport institute network to identify ways to make sure the models are working effectively. Following this review the AIS and state institutes and academies of sport SISSAS have made a commitment to identify further refinements and streamlining of the support systems across Australia to further enhance the combined benefits to athletes and sports. We have launched a new high performance athlete learning and development platform called myAISplaybook which will help more than 1800 athletes and assist them in developing careers outside sport and providing important health and welfare support. In addition we have seen more than 45 coaches graduate from the Centre for Performance Coaching and Leadership which is designed to provide much-needed development and mentoring opportunities for our brightest coaches and administrators. Of course our sports have also been busy not only supporting our athletes to succeed but also in embracing the changes that will ensure they remain competitive into the future. Their efforts are detailed in the following pages however particular mention should be made of golf netball sailing and surfing all sports that are considered to be among our high performers. We look forward to working with sport across the high performance system in the year ahead. We are confident that with the collection of great people we have working together we can continue to dream big for Australian sport. Matt Favier Director AIS