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19 February - 4 March 2019 Issue 756
UK Sport relaxes 'no compromise' stance UK Sport has set out its funding blueprint for the next Olympic and Paralympic cycles, covering the Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 Games. The strategy includes a significant change in the way the high performance body will hand out grants – namely, the relaxing of its 'no compromise' approach to funding elite sport. Instead of focusing entirely on sports which have a chance of medaling at the next Olympic Games, the new approach will see three tiers of funding that will channel investment into different
■ Funding will still be focused on winning
stages of the performance pathway.
medals, but over a longer term
The funding tiers are: ■ Podium: Investment into athletes
The strategy follows a public
and teams with a realistic chance
consultation on UK Sport funding, which
of medals within four years.
revealed 61 per cent of respondents
■ Podium Potential: Investment to
saying the current medal winning
athletes and teams with a realistic
strategy is "the right approach". “We're confident the new strategy
chance of a podium position within four to eight years.
will help sustain medal success
■ Progression: Investment to enable
while enabling more communities
athletes and sports to take the first
to be inspired by sport," said UK
step on the performance pathway.
Sport chair Katherine Grainger.
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