GREECE’S cash-strapped athletics federation (SEGAS) has suspended its operations in protest at continuous cutbacks in state funding, the organisation’s executive board said.Following a SEGAS general assembly meeting, the board said it would cease operating “until further notice”, while calling on the state to review the funding situation following cuts in the 2011 and 2012 budgets for athletics.Just eight years after hosting the Olympics in Athens, the government has already halted funding for the country’s elite athletes preparing to compete in the 2012 London Games.“The federation, under the authority of the general assembly, has unanimously decided to suspend all sporting activity until the decisions of the unfair and selective cuts in funding for the organisation in 2011 and 2012 are reviewed by the government,” SEGAS said in a statement.
