MPs warned over ‘shameful’ lack of funding for GB athletes at Deaflympics
-
British athletes at Deaflympics having to raise funds
-
No elite deaf athletes are funded by central government
It is shameful and discriminatory that deaf people are the only disabled community that does not receive any government funding to help them to compete in elite sport, MPs have been told.
Although UK Sport will invest £330m of government and national lottery funding into British Olympic and Paralympic sport over the Los Angeles 2028 cycle, the GB team for the Deaflympics in Tokyo next month are having to raise most of the £450,000 costs themselves.