>> but I wouldn't have guessed what's #1:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2012/08/03/7-Olympic-Sports-That-Cost-the-Most-in-TrainingShooting most expensive. Wow. But no class barrier to participation in shooting episodes if I understand the US stats correctly. ;-)
As for sailing: NZ probably is quite similar to Vancouver with a free coastline at hand. Lots of kiwi kids learn sailing at little cost.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1