"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
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"Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.“
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