UK Sport funding policy needs change | Letter
Governing bodies of 12 British sports call for all Paralympic and Olympic sports to receive at least a baseline level of fundingThe athletes within the sports cast aside by UK Sport’s current investment policy have little hope for change as UK Sport looks ahead to Paris 2024 (Grainger warns cuts will hit medal haul, Sport, 5 June).Under the heading of “Future Strategy”, the wording of UK Sport’s live consultation survey on future funding for Olympic and Paralympic sport illustrates that there is little appetite for change. Its assertion that “with a fixed amount of investment to distribute to sports, a change to the current investment policy such as an equal distribution of funding for all sports could have direct consequences” seems designed to create fear that there will be a total collapse of the UK medal tally should the current funding model be meddled with. Continue reading...
Governing bodies of 12 British sports call for all Paralympic and Olympic sports to receive at least a baseline level of funding
The athletes within the sports cast aside by UK Sport’s current investment policy have little hope for change as UK Sport looks ahead to Paris 2024 (Grainger warns cuts will hit medal haul, Sport, 5 June).
Under the heading of “Future Strategy”, the wording of UK Sport’s live consultation survey on future funding for Olympic and Paralympic sport illustrates that there is little appetite for change. Its assertion that “with a fixed amount of investment to distribute to sports, a change to the current investment policy such as an equal distribution of funding for all sports could have direct consequences” seems designed to create fear that there will be a total collapse of the UK medal tally should the current funding model be meddled with.
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