After a memorable summer for British sport, a number of sports received funding cuts from UK Sport, prompting frustration from sports organisations across the country
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British basketball led a chorus of disapproval as the nation's glorious sporting summer gave way to a winter of discontent.
Judgement day for Britain's Olympic and Paralympic sports brought further joy to the medal winners of London 2012.
Cycling, boxing, athletics, canoeing, diving, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, rowing, sailing, shooting and taekwondo all cashed in on their success.
But despite UK Sport revealing a record ?347 million would be invested in the four-year build-up to the 2016 Rio Games, swimming's funding was slashed by almost 15 per cent.
And some of the most popular sports at the London Olympics had theirs cut altogether.
Basketball went from an ?8.5 million award ahead of London to nothing, a decision former world champion athlete Phillips Idowu labelled "madness".
And two days after 7/7 survivor Martine Wright won the hearts of the nation with her speech at Sports Personality of the Year, the sport which gave her renewed hope was also axed.
"Everyone will have seen the impact sitting volleyball can have on people," said Lisa Wainwright, chief executive of Volleyball England. "When we speak of legacy remember this day, the flame has well and truly been extinguished."
If Wainwright was unhappy, so too was Roger Moreland, performance manager of British Basketball, after his sport joined volleyball. handball, table tennis and wrestling in being told to pay its own way to Rio.
"Over the last five years, the GB teams have done the equivalent of going from League Two in football to the Premier League," fumed Moreland, who confirmed he would lodge an appeal.
"They have been competing with the very best countries in the world. It doesn't seem much of a legacy from 2012 to dash the hopes and aspirations of a sport whose heartland is founded in Britain's inner cities.
"Having been funded to the tune of ?8.5m in the lead up to the London Olympics because of the sport's medal potential for the future, this is a devastating decision and is a waste of that investment."
Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport, said the funding body's "no-compromise approach" was designed at making Britain "the first nation in recent history to be more successful in the Olympics and Paralympics post-hosting.''
She immediately set a target of winning more medals in both Olympics and Paralympics in Brazil than Britain won in London.
"It isn't about being popular it's about making tough decisions about where public money goes," added UK Sport chairman Sue Campbell.
Nicholl urged the sports that lost out to learn from how hockey went from being "bust" and in "dire straits" to the success story it is today.
That was no consolation for British handball star Holly Lam-Moores, who tweeted: "Devastated. We inspired a generation this summer but now unable to capitalise on that.
"A sad, sad day for most GB team sports."
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/uk-sport-funding-cuts-slammed-1496749
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