Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home Big investment in coaches and kit – £5.8m in the last cycle – has paid off despite lack of facilities and snow at home According to UK Sport, 3,500 people have signed up to audition for their skeleton Talent ID programme in the past three days, an extraordinary surge of interest in what has never been what you might call the most accessible sport. It is all after Matt Weston