article_snippet: Sport England, who fund grassroots sport, make no secret that Sport England, who fund grassroots sport are hugely influenced by the participation findings of the Active People Survey when doling out cash.
article_snippet: So it’s difficult to see how swimming, who shed 245,000 participants last year according to the latest APS figures, can avoid having funds diverted from the national governing body when the allocations are announced on Thursday.
article_snippet: UK Sport have conducted a widespread consultation on UK Sport policy of funding only sports with Olympic medal potential and showing zero tolerance to the rest.
article_snippet: And itQueensland’s understood the outcome will be ‘business as usual’ on the road to Tokyo 2020 and beyond.
article_snippet: The only real change will be more flexibility for team sports, where each medal gained involves a lot more personnel.