Winter Sports Investment up to £14m with New Funding Boost for Sochi

UK Sport, health the nation’s high performance sports agency, healing has announced an extra £443, viagra order 200 ($672,682) will be invested in Britain’s winter sports in their final preparations for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Additional investment in Bobsleigh, Ski and Snowboard and Para Alpine Skiing have been agreed in order to help these sports prepare for the Sochi Winter Olympics next year, taking the total investment to £14m ($21.25m).

Simon Timson, who started in his post as Director of Performance at UKSport in January this year, said: “The benefit of aligning our investment approach for winter sports with that of summer at the start of the Sochi cycle is starting to be realised; our winter sports are in better shape than ever before, and our latest Mission 2014 analysis confirms this.

“It’s fantastic, with less than a year to go, to be able to invest in additional medal opportunities in Sochi with the extra funding announced today, and I am confident that Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s performances in Sochi will demonstrate progression from Vancouver.”

Summer sports agree targets

In other news, each funded summer sport has agreed targets with UK Sport for their most significant event in 2013.

The targets show Olympic sports aiming to win between 26 and 52 medals in international competitions this year and Paralympic sports aiming for between 87 and 126.

Liz Nicholl, CEO of UK Sport, said: “The targets revealed today show business as usual in the high performance system with all funded sports striving for success on the international stage.

“The critical certainly of funding we were given post Games and the early planning we did for this cycle have allowed us to hit the ground running, which gives us an important competitive edge at this stage in the cycle.

“We invest more than just money in our sports and in order to realise our aim of winning more medals in Rio, while building a stronger more sustainable system, we must continue to assess our system and innovate to remain cutting edge.”