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The are supposed to be about changing the face of British sport and giving smaller and lesser-known sports a rare moment in the spotlight.

But less glamorous sports like handball, volleyball and fencing need money to make that happen. It certainly looks like some competitors in those sports are not getting enough.

I spent a fascinating day with 24-year-old British team fencer in London.

She's been one of the country's top fencers since she was 14. But, although she competes for Britain, she receives no money from the at all.

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Former International Olympic Committee President , was a controversial figure who will go down in history as the man who turned the Olympics into a commercial brand but who also allowed a cancer of corruption and lavish living to grow in the .

Samaranch had plenty of critics who said a man who had pursued a career in sports politics in dictator Francisco Franco's fascist Spain shouldn't be allowed to run the IOC.

They accused him of running the organisation with an iron fist during his 21 years as president from 1980-2001.

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