UK Sport withdraws funding from GB Snowsport for next Olympic cycle amid governance review
UK Sport has refused to let GB Snowsport deliver an Olympic programme amid record funding for winter sports
October 2025
MPs warned over ‘shameful’ lack of funding for GB athletes at Deaflympics
It is shameful and discriminatory that deaf people are the only disabled community that does not receive any government funding in elite sport, MPs have been told
September 2025
Olympic medallist Ben Proud becomes first British athlete to join Enhanced Games
The Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the Enhanced Games, an event that allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs
June 2025
Can gold medals really inspire lasting change? It’s time we tried to find out
Cath Bishop
Britain’s performance in the Olympics and Paralympics has been transformed, but UK Sport must produce results on its promise of ‘social impact’ from that success
April 2025
Governing bodies braced for grassroots funding cuts from Sport England
Sports minister asks questions about British Basketball’s deal
December 2024
Athletics the biggest loser in funding cut of nearly £1.75m for LA 2028 Olympics
Team GB’s track and field stars won 10 medals at Paris 2024 but athletics is one of only two sports to have funding reduced by UK Sport
August 2024
UK Sport’s Katherine Grainger: ‘There’s no reacting to results … it’s a far healthier conversation than that’
While there are question marks over funding after Paris, the UK Sport chair tells Taha Hashim there will not be a kneejerk response
July 2024
Team GB placed on bullish course for record Olympic medal haul in Paris
Team GB’s athletes will be part of the ‘most sophisticated high-performance system in the world’ at the Paris Olympics according to the director of performance
March 2024
No Olympics until 2044 but UK Sport targets Women’s World Cup and esports
UK Sport wants to bring the Women’s World Cup to Britain for the first time in the 2030s but has ruled out hosting the Olympics for at least 20 years
December 2023
Commission to hear abuse cases in gymnastics branded ‘not fit for purpose’
The campaign group Gymnastics for Change has called for the independent commission, set up to hear alleged abuse cases by coaches, to be paused
June 2023
UK Athletics handed £150,000 in lottery cash to stage London Diamond League
UK Athletics has been given a financial boost from UK Sport after fears that hosting the event would lead to it losing £500,000
February 2023
CJ Ujah to have public funding withheld unless he pays £10,000 UK Sport debt
The banned British sprinter CJ Ujah will have his public funding withheld unless he pays UK Sport more than £10,000
April 2022
The missed opportunities and unfulfilled potential of British basketball
The sport is one of the most popular activities among young people in the UK. Yet years of underfunding means it has little hope of meaningful growth
March 2022
England ease past Bangladesh to book Women’s World Cup semi-finals berth
A 100-run win in Wellington on Sunday was more than enough for Heather Knight’s side to progress to the last four, where they will meet South Africa
England wobble but wriggle past New Zealand to stay in World Cup reckoning
England all but eliminated the hosts’ chances of reaching the semi-finals – though not after a thorough scare
Fifa latest governing body to review links with Concussion in Sport Group
Fifa has said it is reviewing its relationship with the global sports concussion organisation it helps fund amid allegations of plagiarism against its former co-chair and influential neuroscientist Dr Paul McCrory
February 2022
Emma Raducanu retires with hip injury in longest match of WTA season
The US Open champion was forced to quit after three hours and 36 minutes in the first round of the Guadalajara Open
Winter Olympics funding will not just be guided by medals, says UK sport chair
Katherine Grainger has said grassroots participation will help to determine future funding for Winter Olympic sports as well as medal potential
‘Egotistical’: Rory McIlroy attacks Phil Mickelson over Saudi-backed tour
McIlroy says the Greg Norman-backed Super Golf League is ‘dead in the water’ and had ‘a lot of words’ for Mickelson
