London 2012 Olympics: UK Sport sets a minimum target of 48 medals for Team GB to achieve in Games UK Sport has handed out more than £500 million in taxpayer and Lottery funding to Olympic sports since London was awarded the Games in 2005, and is hopeful that there will be a greater spread of medal-winning sports than the 11 that were successful in 2008. Every sport with the exception of football, which UK Sport does not fund, has agreed a target, with 20 of the 28 hoping for at least one medal. In 2008, 14 sports had a minimum target of at least one medal. Despite the potential greater spread, responsibility for winning the bulk of medals will again rest on the "formula one" sports in which GB excel, cycling, sailing and rowing, plus the ones with most medals on offer, athletics and swimming. Cycling has a target of six to 10 medals, fewer than the remarkable haul of 14 from Beijing that did more than anything to elevate the British team to fourth in Beijing. Rowing have a target of six medals having asked to post a specific number rather than a range, and sailing has a range of three to five. Swimming has set a target of five to seven, and athletics five to eight. Taekwondo, which has controversially left out world number one Aaron Cook, has a target of one to three medals for its four-member team. Tennis has a target of nought to two medals, based almost entirely on Andy Murray's presence in the singles and doubles draw. At the other end of the scale badminton, judo, shooting and fencing have an upper target of one medal. Eight sports - basketball, synchronised swimming, table tennis, volleyball, handball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling - have conceded they would not win a medal and have targets of reaching certain stages of Olympic competition.