Recent figures from Sport England show that fewer people are playing sport regularly than they were before the Olympics and the 5% cut for community sport, part of an overall 7% cut to the DCMS announced today threatens to damage the government in perception terms.
Sport England and the government prefer to highlight the fact that 1.5 million more adults are playing sport regularly than when the bid was won in 2005.
Almost two thirds of the sample were practicing sports regularly, with only six schoolchildren reported using a mouthguard mostly during taekwondo training.
As someone who, given a grab bag of Chipsticks, could more than happily while away a whole afternoon watching Czech floorball (this is a real sport and was on Eurosport 2 at midday yesterday), it sounds, frankly, like an absolutely cracking idea (undermined only by the fact that many of these minority sports are quite regularly shown on Freeview and satellite sports channels already).
But the taint of corruption has largely escaped it at a time when other sports are regularly crying foul.
In addition, Chadwick's views on sport are regularly covered by the media; he has been quoted more than 5,000 times in publications across the world including in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Time, the Financial Times, the Economist, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Le Monde and China Daily.
Children who play sports regularly are exposed to teamwork and healthy lifestyles.
Sport-fishing competitions are held regularly in some areas, including an international competition organized by the Port Moresby Game Fishing Club.
Now women's sport is more regularly televised.
Sport is also regularly used to foist on people dubious claims of one sort or another.
