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UK Sports Gets 29% Increase In Funding In Latest Spending Review

UK Sport has been "given a 29% increase in funding in the government's autumn Spending Review," according to the BBC. The agency, which looks after Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes, "was fearing a cut to its budget." However, together with National Lottery funding, "its income should now reach around" £148M ($222.5M) in the years building up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. UK Sport Chair Rod Carr said, "This clearly demonstrates continued commitment and confidence in UK Sport's strategy to deliver results at successive Olympic and Paralympic Games and our world-class major events hosting ability." There "was good news for the UK Anti-doping agency," which will have its budget increased by £400,000 ($601,000) (approximately 7%) "despite previous fears that the body could see its funding reduced" by up to 25% (BBC, 11/25).

GET OFF THE BENCH: In London, Matt Slater reported UK Sport has spent £182,000 ($273,000) on "five campaigns for senior positions in global sport in the last two years." The agency, which funds Olympic and Paralympic sport, backed campaigns by Sebastian Coe, Brian Cookson, Phillip Craven, John McEwen and Louise Martin. UK Sports COO Simon Morton said, "If we care about the future of international sport then we've got to get off the bench and into the game. That means supporting British administrators to secure international leadership positions to ensure that the U.K., as one of the world's leading sporting nations, has a strong voice in developing world sport." But some within British Olympic and Paralymipc sport "have questioned the wisdom of spending money that could be targeted at young athletes on the business of sports politics." Jessica Ennis-Hill's Coach Toni Minichiello said, "Seb Coe being president of world athletics does not win us any medals" (BBC, 11/26).

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