Public Funding For Snow Sports Ends This Month
Public Funding For Snow Sports Ends This Month
Published : 02-Mar-2011 02:46
Chemmy Alcott - No more public funds.
In a bitter twist in the strange ebbs and flows of public funding, British competitive snow and ice sports see an increase of approximately £3.8m this month but that total includes a £620,000 cut in the budget for our elite boarders and skiers – which represents all of their former public funding in fact, while sliding-on-ice sports see a £4.5 million increase in funding.
The previously announced cuts by UK Sport which administers lottery funds for elite athletes which come in to force this month sees the £372,000 public funding for skiing and the £248,000 budget for snowboarding go completely.
Women's bobsleigh will get half a million pounds additional funding to £2.4m; short-track skating £1.8m to £2.8m; skeleton's 1.3m more to a new total of £3.4m and curling's £900,000 more to now receive £2.1m.
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