The "potential scale of the athlete welfare scandal engulfing British Olympic and Paralympic sports can be laid bare" after it emerged concerns had been raised over more than a third of UK Sport-funded governing bodies, according to Ben Rumsby of the London TELEGRAPH. At least 11 of the 28 national governing bodies in receipt of £361.5M ($462.6M) of public money in the "build-up" to the Rio and PyeongChang Games have "received complaints from athletes or been forced to review their policies -- or both -- since being awarded their share of that cash." Seven of those NGBs had already been publicly exposed, the most recent of them on Tuesday "when it emerged a senior bobsleigh coach had been accused of racism." Four more that have had to "confront welfare-related concerns" during or after the Rio and PyeongChang cycles are the NGBs of sailing, judo, archery and short track speed skating. Along with athletics, swimming, cycling, rowing, canoeing and taekwondo, those four sports and bobsleigh account for "almost two-thirds of UK Sport’s entire budget for the two Games" (TELEGRAPH, 6/13).
