Cash-strapped UK Athletics has been handed £150,000 of lottery money to help stage next month’s London Diamond League meeting in a major boost for the struggling governing body.
At one stage, UKA feared it could lose about £500,000 from the meeting at the London Stadium but insiders have told the Guardian the injection of the money from UK Sport’s major event fund – along with the sale of 39,000 tickets so far – will help it break even.
