An influential review will call for a complete overhaul of the way British sport is run later on Thursday.
The report, the first independent review for 45 years, says quangos like UK Sport and Sport Scotland should be axed and replaced by one foundation.
That foundation would then be chaired by the Secretary of State for Sport.
Authors, ex-sports ministers Kate Hoey and Lord Colin Moynihan, say only a radical shake-up can bring elite success and avert a health crisis.
 Hoey is one of the report's authors |
Hoey told BBC Sport: "The way we run sport in this country is a nonsense.
"There is a need for a huge amount of stream-lining - we have far too many quangos, far too much bureaucracy and the people who really matter, who are actually participating do not get much chance of saying how it should work.
"We want to change that."
One of the key recommendations is for the amount of hours for sport in the national curriculum to be doubled and new schemes introduced to encourage partnerships with schools and sports clubs in their area.
Currently, the majority of schools cannot even guarantee the minimum government target of two hours a week.
But Sports Minister Richard Caborn told BBC Radio Five Live: "When we came into power in 1997, 30% of kids got two hours of quality physical activity or sport - it is now up to 60% and we are going to (increase) that.
"Not only do we want to get up to two hours a week, we want two or three hours of extra physical activity or sport.
"We have actually increased our investment in school sport infrastructure by a factor of seven since 1997."
It is believed the report will argue for significantly more power to be placed in the hands of the governing bodies of sport and for them to be given greater self determination over their budgets and spending.
The report will also advocate sport as an instrument for developing social inclusion and will claim that state school sport provision is poor and pupils are not being well served.
Sport's role in the health of the nation will also feature in the report, with the promise of innovative schemes to promote more health-conscious living and use of prescribed sports exercise by doctors.
Savings to the massive NHS bill derived from creating a healthier population would be ploughed into improving facilities such as building new swimming pools.
The report, to be published at 1430 BST, has been compiled by a team of researchers, who have contacted "everyone who is anyone" in sport for their views.
Its authors claim they have widespread support for their conclusions but are expecting a cool response from the quangos, who have no future under their plans.
As an independent review, there is no obligation for the government to act on its recommendations, but its authors will hope their case for change is powerful enough to force action.
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