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Article: Government reject Olympic plea UK Sport may pull the plug on funding for up to 20 sports including hockey and shooting as private investment falters for British teams at Olympics
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 30, 2008
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THE GOVERNMENT are refusing to commit public money to plug a
pounds 79 million gap in Team GB's budget for the London 2012 Games,
leaving 20 sports in danger of being culled from the funding
programme altogether.
UK Sport, the agency who distribute money to elite Olympic and
Paralympic sports, are preparing to make drastic cutbacks to their
original 2012 budget to make up for the shortfall, which has been
caused by failure to attract private investment for the British
team.
The decision on where the axe will fall will be taken at a board
meeting on Tuesday, which could lead to a dramatic reduction in the
size of Team GB in four years' time. A hit list of 11 Olympic and
nine Paralympic ...