Dame Katherine Grainger, the incoming chair of UK Sport, has dismissed calls to review the quango’s ‘no compromise’ approach despite 11 sports claiming that the system had “disenfranchised” a number of athletes.

A letter penned to Grainger ahead of her official appointment on 1 July stated that the current system was “two-class” and “countered Olympic ideals”.

UK Sport’s no compromise approach results in funding being concentrated to sports that have the most opportunity to medal at Olympic Games.

According to the letter, only 48 per cent of Olympic sports (16 out of 33) were being funding in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, compared with 64 per cent for Rio 2016 and 70 per cent for London 2012.

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