SPORT ENGLAND BACKPEDALS ON CHANGES TO ITS SPORTING POLICY

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Sport England (SE) appears to have bowed to pressure from British Cycling (BC) and other lobbyists to re-include recreational cycling in its definition of sport.

Documents received from a reader?s private enquiry into Sport England?s recent U-turn on sporting funding policy, revealed that SE no longer intends to exclude recreational cycling from its sporting funding policy, and that its definition of sport will remain the same for 2008.

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