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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

MPs warned over ‘shameful’ lack of funding for GB athletes at Deaflympics

A general view of a running track
UK Sport will invest £330m funding into British Olympic and Paralympic sport up to 2028, but deaf athletes will miss out. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

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.

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