Funding cuts to the sport budget have been described as "worrying" by the head of Scotland's governing body for athletics.
The Scottish Government's draft budget for 2017/18 proposes a £4 million real-terms cut to spending on sport, reducing it to £41.8 million.
Mark Munro, chief executive officer of Scottish Athletics, told Holyrood's Health and Sport Committee the cut would "undoubtedly impact" on sports governing bodies.
Mr Munro was speaking at the committee as part of a discussion on "sport for everyone".
He told MSPs: "These are worrying times for sport, and particularly for governing bodies.
"The cut that sportscotland have received recently around the sports budget, coupled with the significant reduction in lottery funding, will undoubtedly impact on governing bodies and will undoubtedly impact on our ability to deliver good work around clubs, and volunteers and coaches in clubs, in the local community."
He added: "Coupled with that, we are seeing massive reductions in sports development teams, whether within local authorities and leisure trusts.
"Posts are disappearing, they're being merged together, and the impact of that will be felt in the immediate future and the medium term as well.
"So, really worrying times for sport, I have to say, in terms of the funding."
Earlier, Mr Munro told the committee £100,000 of annual funding for Scottish Athletics' free running programme Jogscotland will be removed from April.
The programme has grown from from 21,111 members in 2011 to 39,987 at the end of 2016.
Mr Munro said he could not explain the logic behind stopping its funding.
"We need to look at what information do the government want around that programme," he said.
"To say we are in crisis mode at the moment around Jogscotland is probably correct."
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