The winners and losers have been announced in High Performance Sport New Zealand's funding budget for next year. Sailing, athletics, canoe racing and slalom, women's sevens and hockey, and the Paralympic movement can afford to put another sausage on the Christmas barbecue with boosts that recognise their progress across the Rio cycle and potetnial for the Tokyo Games. However, there will be rocks under the beach towels for swimming, triathlon, cycling, men's sevens and women's football for failing to meet expectations. "Some sports have delivered quality performance on the world stage and been given slightly increased investment to see how much more they might achieve," said HPSNZ chief executive Alex Baumann. "A few who have not met either our or their own expectations have had reductions, however we will continue to work closely with them to meet all the HP system goals for the next cycle and beyond."
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