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UK Sport is the UK’s trusted high-performance expert, powering the nation’s greatest athletes and teams to achieve success. Established in 1997, UK Sport has transformed the high-performance sporting system in the UK – through strategic leadership and investment of National Lottery and Government funds – helping to deliver more Olympic and Paralympic medals than ever before and turn the UK into one of the top nations in the world for event-hosting capabilities. UK Sport’s purpose is to lead high-performance sport to enable extraordinary moments that enrich lives and, over the next period, is aiming to work collaboratively with partners to deliver the greatest decade of extraordinary moments - reaching, inspiring and uniting the whole nation.

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Countdown to Paris 2024: Westminster Hosts Team GB Athletes Partner content
Countdown to Paris 2024: Westminster Hosts Team GB Athletes
Culture
By UK Sport
With the Paris Olympics and Paralympics now just one year away, Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes took time out from their busy training schedules to meet with MPs at a parliamentary reception, hosted by UK Sport. It was a chance to celebrate the contribution that elite sport makes to the UK and for our athletes to share how they are preparing to make the nation proud at Paris 2024.
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Why Environmental Sustainability is the Foundation for Future Sporting Success Partner content
Environment
By UK Sport
Why Environmental Sustainability is the Foundation for Future Sporting Success
We often hear about the steps that manufacturing, infrastructure, and transport are taking to respond to the challenge of climate change, but it is a growing issue for sport too. As UK Sport launches its new Environmental Sustainability Strategy, we sat down with Tom Baker, Head of Social Impact, to find out why the organisation is putting environmental sustainability at the centre of its work.
Powered by Purpose: How the next generation of UK athletes are powering positive change Partner content
Health
By UK Sport
Powered by Purpose: How the next generation of UK athletes are powering positive change
Being a top-class athlete is about achieving dreams and ambitions in the sporting arena. But for many of the UK’s top athletes in 2023 it is also about driving and effecting lasting positive change in society.

Both athletes and MPs know that elite athletes are vital role models for our communities. And on issues such as period poverty, water quality, disability inclusion, and mental wellbeing, UK Sport’s Powered by Purpose programme provides British athletes with the opportunities and skills they need to power positive change in our communities.
Why the UK is ready to build on a magnificent summer of sport Partner content
Health
By UK Sport
Why the UK is ready to build on a magnificent summer of sport
Sport is a part of the national psyche. It provides those big moments where the nation comes together in an act of celebration. These are the moments that inspire the next generation and bring enormous social and economic benefits to the UK as a whole. The House Live sat down with Esther Britten, Head of Major Events at UK Sport, to hear about a memorable summer of sport and learn more about what the future holds.
The Winter Games that proved our love for Team GB and ParalympicsGB hasn’t cooled Partner content
Communities
By UK Sport
The Winter Games that proved our love for Team GB and ParalympicsGB hasn’t cooled
The Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games did more than unite the country behind British athletes; they showed that with the right funding, sport can plot a path to a more diverse, inclusive future for the country as a whole, and MPs agree.
British para athletes make history to end our extraordinary sporting summer on a high Partner content
Coronavirus
By UK Sport
British para athletes make history to end our extraordinary sporting summer on a high
An extraordinary summer is drawing to a close and, as I returned home from Tokyo last week, there was finally time to draw breath and reflect on a very special Paralympic Games. A Games that, in the words of Andrew Parsons, the International Paralympic Committee President, ‘many doubted would happen, many thought impossible’.
From past glories to new hopefuls, MPs share what the Olympics mean to them Partner content
Education
By UK Sport
From past glories to new hopefuls, MPs share what the Olympics mean to them
As a new generation of athletes prepare to take to the sporting stage in Tokyo, backed by sustained support from the Government and the National Lottery’, Westminster is looking ahead to the Games with high hopes that Team GB will again provide extraordinary moments to unite and inspire the nation
The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy Partner content
Health
By UK Sport
The sports making an Olympic contribution to the UK economy
Olympic and Paralympic sports are generating increasing value for the economy – and UK Sport believes they have an important part to play in helping the country Build Back Better from Covid.
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100% of athletes benefit from Powered by Purpose
By UK Sport
Major sporting events are having positive social impact across the UK
By UK Sport
IPC announces Manchester, UK as preferred location for World Para Athletics and World Para Swimming governing bodies
By UK Sport
Bumper summer of UK Sport major events kicks off in Cardiff
By UK Sport
UK Sport announces extra investment to support Paris Olympic and Paralympic preparations 
By UK Sport
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