June
30Revolt against UK Sport over funding cuts
A mass rebellion is set to put UK Sport under further pressure to reform, with 11 national governing bodies of sports calling for a major renovation in how the funding agency assigns lottery and exchequer money. The governing bodies will claim the spirit of sport has been obscured by what is dubbed as UK Sport’s growing obsession with medal targets over the past decade. In a petition to the newly appointed UK Sport chair, Katherine Grainger, it will be implied that this focus on the medal table has left many elite athletes feeling “disenfranchised” and unconsciously created a “two‑class system […]
