20th Century Britain

• From 1950's onwards social class & amateur & professional split slowly broke down. Amateurs were in many sports eg cricket & rugby which began involving working class.
• Amaetur split in the south to play rugby union, professional working class played rugby league in northern towns. In 1996 the union game turned professional.
• Minium wage was introduced in 1999 which lead to an increase in income. Therefore increases spectatorship, quality of athletes and increase opportunities to play different sports.
• Paris olympics 1900 was the ifrst olympics females could partiipate in.
• In 1980 female was elected to the international olympic comittee (IOC).
• In 1997 the IOC insisted that any new olympic sport must include male & female participation.
• State schools were set up in pre 1965 which are grammar schools, secondary modern schools, secondary technical schools. Comprehensive schools were introduced in 1965.
• Transport was more accessible. Both public and private transport began to be more available. This led to an increase in participation and spectatorship international competitions were more popular & more frequent due to planes.