rickshaw said:
Please I don't understand.
Are these $$ (sorry no pound sign on my keyboard) government budget numbers?
If so for what period of time? Four years?
How is the money spent? allocated to each sport organization?
How much goes for administration, how much to athletics?
Does this cover cost of trials, qualification events etc, team travel expenses?
Does it include facilities development, like pools, and fields etc?
What about additional sponsor money?
Money raised by athlete sponsors (like in the US)?
What about... my mind is reeling...
They are the funding amounts from UKSport, the autonomous body, that is partly funded by the national lottery, and partly through general taxation. (with a minor portion from other means)
Clicking on a sport (oh say cycling) shows the funding is for 2009-2013 time frame, and details include the 2012 medal target (or other placing targets in some minor sports).
UK sport will have a speeding review some point fairly soon looking at the targets and shifting allocations from sports that did poorly (swimming) to ones that did well (Boxing, cycling, and rowing leap out).
A condition of ongoing UK sport funding is a realistic medal prospect in 2016 or 2020. Some minor sports got money in the run up to 2012, purely so the team GB could enter a team in their host spot (handball springs to mind).
Some money goes directly to athletes (stipends) some goes to the funding body for coaching, development, travel costs etc etc.
It does not include new infrastructure costs (though maybe some of the running costs of say the Manchester velodrome get allocated, the capital costs are not)
Sponsorships of athletes or organizations (such as Sky/British Cycling) are again outside of that, but the usual guidelines seem to be that an athlete who is getting significant sponsorships/earnings will not get a stipend.
Hope that helps.