Paralympian David Weir fears lack of money will deter fellow athletes from competing at events Weir, winner of four gold medals in London, told The Daily Telegraph yesterday: "It's a pity as the BT Paralympic World Cup has been a staging point for several years, but how are the IPC going to get the athletes to China, Rio, Italy and so on if there is no title sponsor, and no prize money?" It's unlikely it will be a world field. It will be the same old countries there - the Europeans, Australia, Canada, South Africans. Wasn't it worth getting a sponsor in place first, and then promoting it, even if we had to wait until 2014 for it to happen? Weir took part in a similar series of grand prix events in 2007, and finished leading athlete on points. He revealed that he ended up with $5,000 US dollars in prize money, barely enough to cover the cost of a racing chair. International sports marketing agency Fast Track, who have been primarily responsible for staging the event and helping turn it into a success, told Inside the Games that talks are ongoing but revealed an alternative "multi-sport Paralympic event in the UK" that would take a different format from the Paralympic World Cup. Tom Hollingsworth, chief executive of the British Paralympic Association, said that there would be a need to bottle the enthusiasm and interest of the British public four months after 2.7 million tickets were sold to the Paralympic Games. Jody Cundy, the five-time Paralympic cycling gold medallist, tweeted that it was a great day for Paralympic athletics but revealed there was not a single event on the horizon for para-cyclists and that the next World Championships had not even been confirmed for 2014. Cundy tweeted: "Great day for athletics as @paralympic announces a new Grand Prix series! Way forward, just wish we could say the same for Para-Cycling. On the track, we have 0 confirmed events in 2013, not even a World Championships. Maybe one in 2014? Where is our legacy?