Dasit
Tour Rookie
I actually saw an article about this recently. Maybe it wasn't Olympic funding, you are right it probably wasn't, but it was certainly major funding and Netball was missing out as it would not put money into encouraging boys / men to play. The funding bodies will only put money into sports that encourage equal participation. Netball argued that was ridiculous and be a waste of money. They wanted to concentrate on females only, really focus on them, and not spend money on trying to encourage males who were unlikely to play it anyway.
Imagine the uproar if they said "They wanted to concentrate on males only, really focus on them, and not spend money on trying to encourage females who were unlikely to play it anyway."
I actually really enjoyed playing netball when younger. Not sure why it should be a female sport.