Mixed fortunes as UK funding for Rio Olympics revealed
UK Sport has announced a record £347m funding pot for Olympic and Paralympic sports until Rio 2016, but not everybody is celebrating.
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Volleyball Olympian 'hurt' by Rio funding annoucement
Let's be honest, I wasn't expecting a great deal of funding from #UKSport, but nothing... that hurts.
From @McGivern7 on Twitter:Where's the #legacy in that?
From @McGivern7 on Twitter:I thought the attitude to minority team sports was changing. #sillyme
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British swimming 'disappointed' with funding award
– David Sparkes, British Swimming CEOOverall we are satisfied with the outcome. While disappointed with the award for swimming, we recognise we need to rebuild confidence that we can deliver medals at Olympic level consistently before we can demand more investment.
We had a disappointing Olympics in swimming and we now need to focus our energies on driving the cultural change needed moving forward and this will be built around a no compromise approach underpinned by performance management and strong effective leadership.
Handball player 'absolutely gutted' by Olympic funding loss
Handball player Chris McDermott has tweeted:
I'm devastated. Absolutely gutted. Gave everything for 7 years now we've been chopped.
From @ChristopherMcD_ on Twitter:What now? Well I'm going to carry on training and try to continue to improve the level of Handball in this country. #initforthelonghaul
From @ChristopherMcD_ on Twitter:Team GB athletes tweet reaction to Rio funding
@rosiemorris86 Congrats to you guys. Thats with our percentage too so you got an even bigger increase than 53.6%! you'd better do well!
From @SDRyder11 on Twitter:Very happy that @teamgbtaekwondo have secured a 42.7% increase. Well done to all of us. We've had an amazing 4 years..here's to the next 4
From @SarahDStevenson on Twitter:Biggest percentage increase in funding (53.6%) out of all sports going into Rio 2016 for @gb_wpolo_girls. Awesome news! #LetsGoGirls
From @rosiemorris86 on Twitter:Boxing gets biggest increase in UK Olympic sports funding
The biggest increase of any UK Sport Olympic funding goes to boxing, a 44% increase, to £13.8m, though £9.55m is conditional on sport sorting out some internal issues.
Cycling is up to £30.6m from £26.3m, athletics has a £1.7m increase to £26.8m, rowing up from £27.3m to £32.6m, and gymnastics up from £10.8m to £14.5m.
Investment in Paralympic sport has also risen dramatically, up 43% on London 2012.
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UK basketball misses out on Rio Olympic funding
Basketball, handball, wrestling and table tennis, have failed to secure investment from UK Sport ahead of the Rio Olympic Games in 2016
Mixed fortunes as £347m Olympics funding pot revealed
UK Sport has announced a record pot of £347m of Olympic and Paralympic sports funding to be distributed in the run-up to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games
Cycling, rowing, boxing, athletics and gymnastics have been given increases, but several sports, including swimming, basketball, volleyball and handball, are paying the price for missing medal targets with severe cuts to their income.
Swimming funding has been cut to £21.4m from £25.1m, volleyball (down to £400,000 from £3.5m), plus basketball, handball, wrestling and table tennis, which miss out on funding altogether.
Breakdown of Olympic and Paralympic funding for Rio 2016
UK Sport has announced a record pot of £347m to be distributed in the run-up to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
£4m Olympic swimming funding cut ahead Rio Games
UK Sport has announced a decrease in swimming funding ahead of the Rio Games in 2016.
For London 2012, the investment was £25,144,600 but after a disappointing medals haul for the swimmers it will now be £21,400,000 for the next Olympics.
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