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A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academic underpinned by science and medicine. Source
I don't understand the part of "sporting academic underpinned by science and medicine." Please help me to paraphrase this sentence.
They play hard, they play often, and they play to win. Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease. How do they do it? A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine . At the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), hundreds of youngsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches. Another body, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), finances programmes of excellence in a total of 96 sports for thousands of sportsmen and women. Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritional advice.
The test booklet is in error, misspelling words from its source (above). What on earth is with meeting ease*? It's seeming ease.
In any case, the sentence states Australians are winners because there is great support for sporting academies - sports training institutions - which themselves use medicine and science in their training techniques. It's a big business with a lot of money, science and medicine behind it.
