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Thursday, 13 April 2006 |
British Paralympic Association welcomes UK Sport funding
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) is happy with the increase in UK Sport funding before the 2012 Games and Summer Paralympic sport will benefit by £6.5m over the next three years.
Talks will take place with UK Sport to determine the sport-by-sport allocation of the money in the run-up to the prestigious event in London.
"We hope that this will now give sports the scope to find new talent as well as supporting the current elite," explained BPA chief executive Phil Lane.
And Phil Lane added: "We can also concentrate on taking a full team to the Games of 2008 where we will need to blood new athletes who will form the bedrock of our 2012 participation."
As well as the £6.5m investment, £1.5m has been made available for the pre-2008 Beijing Games preparation camps and British Paralympic Performance Services have also been awarded an extra £800,000 to deliver Paralympic-specific preparation support and core services to all sports.
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