THE accessibility of individual sports as well as medal potential will determine funding ahead of the next Winter Olympics, UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger said yesterday.

Reflecting on a Beijing Games that brought Great Britain only two medals from a single sport – curling – Grainger was quizzed about what that would mean for the distribution of funds looking ahead to the next Olympics in Milan and Cortina in 2026.

“We will make our big investment decisions around the summer this year, and the main thing is for all the sports individually to go into a huge review process of not just the Games itself but also the last four years to see what worked, what didn’t work, and what can be improved,” she said.