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# British Athletics punished for Beijing Games flop with budget cut for London
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2012
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## Athletics and nine developing sports will be hit by budget cuts in the
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build-up to the 2012 Olympics in London after UK Sport revealed their elite
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funding programme for the next four years on Wednesday.
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![Christine Ohuruogu: British Athletics punished for Beijing Games flop with
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budget cut for London 2012][1]
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Lone star: Christine Ohuruogu was Britain's only track and field success at
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the Beijing Games Photo: PA
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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)][2]
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Image 1 of 2
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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 Paul Kelso, Chief Sports Writer 9:19PM GMT 03 Dec 2008
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[Comments][3]
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On Tuesday the Government announced a £550 million funding package for Olympic
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sports, £29m more than had been anticipated and an unprecedented investment in
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elite sport.
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However, the package was £50m short of the £600m committed by Gordon Brown in
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2006, thanks to a failure to raise private investment, and as a result nine
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sports are still to discover what level of funding they will receive.
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Athletics has paid the price for its poor performance in Beijing, where it won
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only one gold and four medals overall.
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Despite a record total package of almost £247m being allocated to the London
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Olympic period, beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis,
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volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling face certain cuts.
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UK Sport had hoped to invest more than the £22m they received collectively in
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the Beijing Olympic cycle for these nine sports, but with less money than
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forecast they will share an initial pot of just £12m.
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## Related Articles
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* [Future of Boat Race uncertain][4]
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09 Dec 2008
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* ['Credit crunch will not affect London 2012'][5]
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04 Dec 2008
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* [BBC Olympic coverage threatened][6]
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03 Dec 2008
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* [Olympic sports lose out ahead of 2012 Games][7]
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03 Dec 2008
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* [Government to plug 2012 funding gap with £29m][8]
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02 Dec 2008
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* [UK Sport dealt £50m funding blow][9]
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02 Dec 2008
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The cuts have been made in line with UK Sport's "no compromise" principals
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which dictate that funding is directed at those sports with the most medal
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potential.
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Each sport will now be involved in negotiations to establish how the money can
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best be spent to maintain the progress made so far.
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By contrast, 17 sports considered to have medal potential have seen funding
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rise off the back of Team GB's record performance in Beijing, with the most
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successful sports receiving significant boosts.
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Rowing is now the best-funded Olympic sport with £27.4m over four years, and
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increase of £1.5m on Beijing.
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The all-conquering cycling squad that won eight gold medals in Beijing has
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been rewarded with a £5m rise to almost £26.9m, while sailing will receive
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£23.4m, up £1.2m.
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Crucially for the credibility of the legacy promises made by London when
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bidding for the Games, the increase in public finance has ensured that
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basketball, the sport with the greatest potential to boost participation, is
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now fully funded up to 2012.
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It also emerged yesterday that responsibility for raising the missing £50m
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will pass from the DCMS, which has been working on a proposal called "Medal
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Hopes" for six months without raising a penny in sponsorship, to UK Sport.
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The entire program will be reviewed and the involvement of Fast Track, the
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sports marketing agency engaged by the Government, will be reassessed.
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The London 2012 organising committee will also have a role to try to ensure
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that the UK Sport programme does not cut across their commercial programme.
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Sue Campbell, the chairwoman of UK Sport, pledged that the nine sports yet to
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receive funding would not be abandoned and said that she was confident that
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the funding gap would be partially closed by money from the private sector,
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perhaps by private donors and patrons.
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"I don't accept that we won't be able to raise any money from this scheme, and
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I do believe that there are high net-worth individuals out there who share the
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ambition for the Olympics and Paralympics to be a huge success," she said.
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"Can we close the entire gap of £50m? Perhaps not, but I'm confident that we
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can go a long way to doing so. This is an event that people and businesses are
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going to want to feel part of."
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For athletics there was a chastening message from UK Sport performance
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director Peter Keen, who said that the fruits of the latest investment may not
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be felt until the 2016 Games, though he held out the prospect of extra funding
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if they perform well at the 2009 World Championship.
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UK Athletics' chief executive Niels De Vos: "I don't believe we have missed
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the chance of being a showcase sport in 2012, and we are working to get as
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many British athletes into finals and on to the podium as possible."
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While many sports gave the package a cautious welcome, the British Olympic
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Association criticised the Government for letting down British sport.
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BOA chief executive Andy Hunt said: "It is disappointing that we find
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ourselves in the position, just three months after the most successful
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Olympics for Great Britain in 100 years, where the Government has failed to
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honour their funding promise to all our sports.
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"For those sports that have learnt that they face an uncertain financial
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future, two years of planning and investment has been thrown up in the air."
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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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**Funding to fight doping**
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UK Sport and the Government are close to agreeing on funding for a new
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national anti-doping agency.
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UK Sport will provide close to £2 million to cover the cost of transition from
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the current arrangement to the new set-up. The sticking point has been
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securing the £8 million-a-year running costs for the new agency.
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