Australian Institute of Sport
Overview
 
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a sports training institution in Australia with world class facilities and support services. The Institute's headquarters is situated in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, the capital city of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The 66.0 hectare site campus
Campus
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 is in the northern suburb
Suburb
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 of Bruce
Bruce, Australian Capital Territory
Bruce is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Bruce was gazetted as a division on 6 June 1968 in recognition of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the first Chancellor of the Australian National University and eighth Prime Minister of Australia. S. M. Bruce served as...

, but some of the institute's programs are located in other Australian cities. The AIS is a division of the Australian Sports Commission
Australian Sports Commission
The Australian Sports Commission is the governing body responsible for distributing funds and providing strategic guidance for sporting activity in Australia. It is an agency of the Government of Australia within the portfolio of Health and Ageing...

.
Set up in 1981 after the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games
1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Montreal was awarded the rights to the 1976 Games on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, over the bids of Moscow and...

 in which Australia failed to win a gold medal
Gold medal
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 (regarded as a severe national embarrassment in Australia), the Institute's well-funded programs (and more generally the generous funding for elite sporting programs) are regarded as a major reason for Australia's success in international sporting competition.

Shortly after its inception in 1989, the AIS held a competition for a symbol that would depict the AIS aim of "achieving supremacy in sport".
 
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