NEWS UPDATE UK Sport to change funding criteria after Rio 2016
The government’s high performance sport agency UK Sport is to reconsider its “no compromise” approach to funding elite sport. UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl said the agency would launch a consulta- tion, during which all stakeholders – such as national governing bodies – will have an opportunity to voice their views on the current funding strategy. UK Sport invests around £100m of public money into sport each year and its medals-based funding strategy has been credited with delivering Team GB’s Olympic and Paralympic success in the past two Olympic Games. Currently, sports which demonstrate that they are able to deliver Olympic medals are guaranteed financial support while those less likely to get athletes to the podium face cuts in funding. Sports which consistently underperform are
in danger of losing their elite funding entirely. While the “no compromise” approach has been hailed successful, as it has delivered impressive medal hauls at the Beijing (2008) and London (2012) Olympic Games, sports which have lost out on funding have launched bitter attacks against the system. Perhaps the most vocal of the critics has been British Basketball, which lost all its Olympic funding earlier this year, after UK Sport said the sport had “not done enough” to prove it could win a medal at the 2016 or 2020 Games. Other sports which have lost their fund- ing entirely include volleyball, synchronised swimming, water polo and weightlifting. It now seems that UK Sport is reconsid- ering its no compromise approach. “We really do want to listen to all voices,” Nicholl said.
Cost of Olympic stadium conversion increases to £190m
The cost of converting the London Olympic Stadium into a 54,000-capacity multi- use stadium is set to rise from £154m to £190m due to complications in install- ing the new roof. Providing the support structures for the new roof have required significantly more strengthening work to the main roof truss than initially expected. The truss was originally designed to be
taken down after the Games. The London Legacy Development Corporation has allo- cated an extra £35.9m for the project. Read more:
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British Basketball has welcomed the move “We’re not arrogant enough to think that
we know how to do everything best. The questions that we need to ask, of the gov- ernment, of our partners, are: What is it that they want UK Sport to be focused on? What is it they want UK Sport to deliver?” Read more:
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The floating bikeway would take cyclists past famous London landmarks
Floating bikeway in pot of ideas for London cycling
The stadium is due to reopen in 2016 Arup selected to masterplan 2020 Olympic Games The proposed Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium
Consultancy and engineering firm Arup has won the contract to advise on venues and infrastructure for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London-based firm says it has been appointed lead adviser to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with its duties cover- ing venue and infrastructure development. Arup will masterplan the Games, as well as advising on transport and legacy. Read more:
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When it comes to how best to cater for cyclists in the UK’s capital, more ideas are being “floated” than ever before. The latest is the Thames Deckway, a 7-mile (11km) stretch of cycle path which would float along- side the banks of the river. Thames Deckway is a con- cept proposed by River Cycleway Consortium, which is led by archi- tect David Nixon and environmental entrepreneur Anna Hill, in conjunc- tion with Arup and David Broughton Architects. Running from Battersea to Canary Wharf, the waterside cycle path would decrease journey times by an estimated 30 minutes. Read more:
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