Date Time DAIS support for Games athletes Almost 70 per cent of athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics, and a large majority of para-athletes attending the Tokyo Paralympics, have received direct grants from the AIS in this Olympic and Paralympic cycle and the AIS looks forward to the next evolution of this vital dAIS program. The dAIS scheme provides Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games athletes with direct financial support to enable them to focus on training and competitions so they can achieve their goals. In 2020-21 alone, the AIS provided 1,448 payments to 827 athletes across Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games sports, with $21 million has been directed to Olympic athletes across the cycle.