The London Olympic campaigns of swimming and canoe racing are under threat, with the government sport's funding body SPARC, witholding funding while the sports try and resolve management problems.
SPARC has announced its high performance funding for the next two years.
Swimming's budgeted to receive $1.65 million a year for the next two years, but SPARC is only guaranteeing $825,000 for the next six months.
The remainder's subject to an independent review being carried out and its subsequent recommendations being implemented.
Melbourne Commonwealth Games gold medallists Moss Burmester, who retired after the Delhi Commonwealth Games, has been critical of the coaching structure within the sport, saying Swimming New Zealand no longer has swimmers' best interests at heart.
SPARC'S high performance manager Marty Toomey is guaranteeing funding until the end of June so swimmers can keep training and competing while issues are resolved.
The sacking of national canoe coaches Ian Fergusson and Paul MacDonald and Fergusson's fractious relationship with former world champion Ben Fouhy has also contributed to SPARC putting a rider on that sport's funding.
Toomey says the $900,000 earmarked for canoe racing in 2011 is subject to confirmation of its coaching structure and ensuring the right environment for all athletes in the national squad.
Rowing, cycling, equestrian and Paralympics are the major winners in the funding round.
Rowing gets an increase of $800,000 in 2011 and in 2012, meaning it will receive $4.32 million a year, in the wake of the sport winning seven medals at the world champs on Lake Karapiro.
Bike New Zealand, which includes road, track, BMX and mountainbike, will receive an extra half a million dollars a year receiving $4.085 million in 2011 and 2012.
Winter sport will get $900,000 in 2011 and 2012, rising to $1.3 million in 2011 and $1.5 million in 2012 if the disciplines of freeski halfpipe, snowboard slopestyle and freeski slopestyle are added to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Russia.
Equestrian will receive increased funding for its eventing programme, rising from $525,000 this year to $900,000 in 2011 and $1 million in 2012, ahead of the London Olympics.
Paralympics New Zealand funding doubles.
Next year it will receive $1.4 million and $1.5 million in 2012, up from $650,000 this year.
Overall funding is up almost four million dollars on 2010, with the government's total investment in high performance sport now $27.4 million.
