UK Sport has advised that it has invested nearly £6.5 million of public funding in Winter Olympic and Paralympic sports in the run-up to Vancouver.
The British Ski and Snowboard Federation and its athletes on UK Sport's World Class Performance programme received £620,000 of Olympic funding and £205,000 of Paralympic funding. This investment has been supported by Talented Athlete Scholarship scheme (TASS) funding for Winter Sports, totaling £4 million in the last four years, of which over £700,000 has been invested in promising Skiers and Snowboarders.
The Winter Olympic team has also received support from the English Institute of Sport and UK Sport's world leading Research and Innovation and Talent Identification programmes.
As part of the contingency arrangements, UK Sport has agreed to provide approximately £21,500 of additional funds to the British Olympic Association. This amount has been ring-fenced for the support of two additional elite athletes and their immediate technical and coaching teams, to participate in the Vancouver Winter Olympics.