"Lucindha Lawson from Crouch End is due to represent Great Britain in the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo next week - the deaf equivalent of the Olympics - but she is struggling to raise the 4,000 entry cost and is not entitled to any funding. Unlike Olympic and Paralympic athletes, Deaflympics competitors are not eligible for grants and must self-fund their participation."
""We have to ask local communities, charities, businesses to try and raise the money ourselves," she told BBC London. "It does affect my career in football. "It's very stressful, I am always thinking about the financial aspect, so I might forget about training and it might steer me off the wrong way, whereas if I didn't have the financial constraints I could just continue (with football).""
Lucindha Lawson, a north London footballer from Crouch End, is set to represent Great Britain at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo but cannot access funding and faces a 4,000 entry cost. Deaflympics competitors are ineligible for Olympic or Paralympic grants and therefore must self-fund participation. Lawson has raised 1,200 so far but still needs 2,800 and reports stress and negative effects on her football training from fundraising demands. UK Deaf Sport offered conditional support that would require repayment or risk of future exclusion. Deaf athletes cannot enter the Paralympics and so cannot access its funding.
Read at www.bbc.com
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