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# Olympic sports lose out ahead of 2012 Games
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## Eight Olympics sports are facing an uncertain future after learning today
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that they have missed out on high-performance funding for London 2012.
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![Britain's Olympic sports lose out ahead of 2012 Games: Winners and losers:
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Britain's basketball team will receive a hge boost but marginal sports like
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handball will suffer (Luol Deng and Stuart Campbell)][1]
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Winners and losers: Britain's basketball team will receive a hge boost but
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marginal sports like handball will suffer Photo: PA/GETTY IMAGES
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By Simon Hart 2:57PM GMT 03 Dec 2008
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[Comments][2]
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The sports of fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water
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polo, weightlifting and wrestling all received the phone calls they were
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dreading this morning as UK Sport announced details of their Olympic funding
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allocations for the period 2009 to 2013.
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UK Sport said the decision was based on their "no compromise" investment
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strategy, which concentrates resources on those sports most likely to produce
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medals in four years' time.
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The agency were forced to make sweeping cutbacks to make up for a £50 million
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shortfall in their original 2012 budget.
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That figure had stood at £79m before the Government pledged a further £29m of
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public funds earlier this week, though UK were still required to find savings
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at their board meeting on Tuesday.
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Sue Campbell, the chair of UK Sport, said: "With a shortfall in the overall
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funding available we had to make some tough calls, but we did so in the
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knowledge that our 'no compromise' strategy is not only known and understood
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by sport but was also the basis of our success in Beijing.
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## Related Articles
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* [BBC Olympic coverage threatened][3]
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03 Dec 2008
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* [Government to plug 2012 funding gap with £29m][4]
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02 Dec 2008
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* [UK Sport dealt £50m funding blow][5]
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02 Dec 2008
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* [Government ponders £20m bail-out for athletes][6]
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02 Dec 2008
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* [Cuts could hit 2012 medal haul][7]
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30 Nov 2008
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All of the Olympic and Paralympic sports were given their funding figures this
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morning. Four Paralympic sports have also lost out: fencing, volleyball,
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women's wheelchair basketball and goalball, a team sport for blind athletes.
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The sports that have missed out have been told by UK Sport that they will work
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with them over the coming weeks to try to identify other sources of funding
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such as private sponsorship, while a further review of their finances will
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take place in January.
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Those with the best performance potential will be allocated basic funding,
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though it is unlikely to be enough to run the kind of high-performance
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programmes that are necessary if they are to challenge for medals. Some of the
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sports are likely to miss out on the Games altogether.
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The news is especially tough on shooting, who received more than £5m in the
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previous funding cycle but who missed out on the podium in Beijing. It was
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only eight years ago, in Sydney, that shooter Richard Faulds won a gold medal.
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Table tennis, which has a number of promising young players coming through,
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will also feel particularly aggrieved.
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There will also be great disappointment felt by volleyball and handball, both
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of whom had hoped to use the 2012 Games to establish themselves as Olympic
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sports in Britain.
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Handball has been particularly ambitious, setting up a high-performance
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academy in Aarhus, Denmark. Without funding, there is little chance of it
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continuing.
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UK Sport have committed a total of £292 million for the next Olympic cycle and
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revealed that their target is a "top four" place in the London medals table,
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which allows for improvement on the original target of "fourth place" that was
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achieved ahead of time in Beijing.
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Among the Olympic sports there are some notable winners in the funding stakes,
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with cycling being rewarded for their stunning successes in Beijing with a
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£4.8m rise on their previous allocation.
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**Confirmed funding for London 2012**
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**Sport **
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**Funding award **
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**(Beijing award) **
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**Difference **
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Archery
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£4.5million
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(£2.8m)
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Increase
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Athletics
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£25.1million
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(£26.5m)
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Decrease
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Badminton
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£8.6million
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(£8.8m)
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Decrease
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Basketball
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£8.7million
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(£3.7m)
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Increase
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Boxing
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£8.0million
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(£5.0m)
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Increase
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Canoeing
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£16.3million
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(£13.6m)
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Increase
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Cycling
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£26.9million
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(£22.2m)
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Increase
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Diving
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£6.6million
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(£5.9m)
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Increase
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Equestrian
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£13.6million
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(£11.7m)
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Increase
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Fencing
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Not confirmed
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(£3.1m)
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Likely cut
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Gymnastics
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£10.3million
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(£9.0m)
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Increase
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Handball
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Not confirmed
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(£3.0m)
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Likely cut
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Hockey
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£14.1million
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(£9.9m)
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Increase
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Judo
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£7.6million
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(£6.9m)
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Increase
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Modern pentathlon
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£6.4million
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(£5.9m)
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Increase
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Rowing
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£27.4million
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(£26.0m)
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Increase
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Sailing
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£23.4million
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(£22.3m)
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Increase
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Shooting
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not confirmed
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(£5.1m)
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Likely cut
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Swimming
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£25.6million
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(£20.7m)
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Increase
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Synch swimming
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£3.5million
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(£1.6m)
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Increase
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Table tennis
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Not confirmed
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(£2.5m)
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Likely cut
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Taekwondo
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£4.5million
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(£2.7m)
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Increase
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Triathlon
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£5.4million
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(£5.1m)
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Increase
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Volleyball
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Not confirmed
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(£4.1m)
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Likely cut
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Water polo
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Not confirmed
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(£3.1m)
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Likely cut
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Weightlifting
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Not confirmed
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(£1.7m)
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Likely cut
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Wrestling
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Not confirmed
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(£2.1m)
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Likely cut
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Paralympics
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£45.6million
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(£29.5m)
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Increase
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Total
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£304.4million
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*(£264.6m)
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Increase
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*includes £12million from sports where funding is not confirmed
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