By Martin Ziegler, Press Association UK Sport has rejected appeals against its decision to withdraw funding from Olympics sports basketball, synchronised swimming and women’s water polo. The funding body has also stood by its decision to cut all funds from Paralympics sports goalball, visually-impaired football and wheelchair fencing. UK Sport has changed its decision about women’s weightlifting and reinstated money totalling £894,000 in the build-up to the Rio 2016 Olympics, while badminton has been awarded an extra £250,000. UK Sport chairman Rod Carr admitted that the decisions on zero funding, confirming the original announcement last month, would be unpopular in some quarters.
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UK Sport has decided to withdraw funds from Olympic sports basketball, synchronised swimming and women's water polo
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Funding for Paralympic sports goalball, visually impaired football and wheelchair fencing is also cut in full
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UK Sport has reversed its decision to cut funding for women's weightlifting and has awarded badminton an extra £250,000
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The funding body accepts its zero funding decision will be unpopular but claims back sports with medal-winning potential is a strategy that works
'On behalf of water polo, synchro and other @placeholder sports that face the real possibility of dying out as a result of today’s announcement, we call on the sports minister to show leadership in this area by looking at the entire funding system for elite sport.”