Liz Nicholl news

Sally Munday, the current chief executive England and GB Hockey, has been appointed CEO of UK Sport. She joins the nation’s high-performance sports agency after ... More

England and Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling, UK Sport CEO Liz Nicholl and the England Netball team were among the winners of the BT Sport ... More

Seven sports will receive extra funding to support their plans for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Basketball, sitting volleyball, baseball and wrestling will ... More

Surfing, skateboarding and climbing are among the 14 sports to have have received investment from UK Sport's new £3m Aspiration Fund. The fund, launched in ... More

UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl has announced she will step down from the role in the summer of 2019. Nicholl, who first joined UK ... More

UK Sport has closed a public consultation designed to shape its future investment principles. The consultation asked for views on how UK Sport should allocate ... More

UK Sport is to deliver a "one-off" support deal to British Basketball, in order to help the troubled national governing body fulfil international fixtures scheduled ... More

More women and independent voices in the boardroom have seen 55 of the UK’s national sports bodies pass the first test posed by the sector’s ... More

Chair of UK Sport Katherine Grainger says unfunded sports still have a role in the system but will have to look elsewhere for investment as ... More

The number of athletes from ethnic minority backgrounds being funded by UK Sport has not increased over the past year, shining the spotlight on the ... More

Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport, has conceded that the quango must be “more alert” to potential issues within the world class performance systems ... More

National governing bodies of sport should be required to have at least one named person dedicated to the duty of care of athletes or risk ... More

UK Sport has dismissed criticisms that it has failed in its duty of care to athletes following high profile allegations of bullying within sports that ... More

Public funding UK Sport distributes to British Cycling is not under immediate threat despite the assertion that the governing body’s credibility is in “tatters”. It ... More

UK Sport has rejected representations made by six Olympic sports for Tokyo 2020 funding – a decision labeled “staggering” by Badminton England. The national governing ... More

Mark England and Penny Briscoe – the two individuals who oversaw Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s success at the Rio 2016 Olympics – have been recognised ... More

The chief executive of UK Sport has defended the quango’s decision to cut funding to five Olympic sports, but acknowledged it would cause a “devastating ... More

Elite sports funding body UK Sport has left four Olympic sports – archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting - without funding for the 2020 Games in ... More

British Olympians and Paralympians are being urged to consider their future away from sport by attending a special ‘career fair’. Athlete Futures will take place ... More

GB Taekwondo has received backing from UK Sport as it bids to host three major events over the next three years. Manchester is at the ... More

Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged that the government will honour the financial commitment made by the previous cabinet to fund elite sport ahead of ... More

A campaign which highlights the value and skills of retiring athletes has been launched by Dame Kelly Holmes in London today (17 October). More Than ... More

Team GB’s record-breaking exploits at the Rio 2016 Olympics demonstrates the nation’s place as “best high performance system in the world”, according to UK Sport. ... More

Team GB has achieved its best ever away result at the Olympic Games with days of Rio 2016 to spare – marking a return on ... More

Chelsea Warr – UK Sport’s deputy director of performance – has been promoted to the body's top performance role to replace Simon Timson. Warr will ... More