Man of Honour
I don't know if anyone has noticed the news yet about Olympics funding for Tokyo 2020 but there's some curious choices in there.
Badminton gets nothing at this stage despite meeting the medal target. Cycling loses around £4.5m despite Team GB owning the velodrome - is this just to level up the playing field a bit or because Team GB were massively overfunded with cycling and are still expected to dominate to the same degree? Shooting gets a £3m bump although it's inarguably not got the same level of appeal as some other sports in the games who have had their funding reduced. Gymnastics also gets a £2m bump in funding although I can see the argument for that as a sport that's much easier for people to take part in.
There's still around £9m unallocated though so some of these decisions might alter I suppose.
Badminton gets nothing at this stage despite meeting the medal target. Cycling loses around £4.5m despite Team GB owning the velodrome - is this just to level up the playing field a bit or because Team GB were massively overfunded with cycling and are still expected to dominate to the same degree? Shooting gets a £3m bump although it's inarguably not got the same level of appeal as some other sports in the games who have had their funding reduced. Gymnastics also gets a £2m bump in funding although I can see the argument for that as a sport that's much easier for people to take part in.
There's still around £9m unallocated though so some of these decisions might alter I suppose.