Search

Minister for Sport, Richard Caborn, announced today that Nigel Walker, the former Olympian and Welsh Rugby Union player, has been appointed to the board of UK Sport

UK Sport is delighted with the decision to award the UK the rights to host the first stage of the 2007 Tour de France - one of the most high profile sporting events in the world.

UK Sport has revealed its greatest investment to date with £330m in Government and National Lottery funding set to benefit more than 50 sports.

The Turin Winter Games open for business tomorrow evening and Team GB's 40 representatives will be ready for action, after four years of training and preparation

As the UK's winter sport athletes compete in Turin and speculation continues as to the nature and timing of any Government announcement of additional funding for 2012, UK Sport has received strong backing from those at the sharp end of Olympic and Paralympic preparation

As the impact of Tuesday's funding announcement has begun to sink in, the sports that make up the Olympic family have started to assess the impact that the new awards will have on their high-performance systems.

Funding for Olympic and Paralympic sport received a massive boost today as UK Sport announced additional funding awards for the three years through to Beijing 2008

Great Britain's summer Olympic sports have been quick out of the blocks in implementing the performance and governance conditions required to receive additional funding for 2012

Decision into future funding strategy to be announced in early 2019.

UK Sport is substantially increasing its investment in the independent BAC.