Top hockey athletes are no longer being told to find funding for their bid for the Rio Olympics.
Coaches and management instead want them focusing on their training and performances.
Members of the Black Sticks were reportedly told by Hockey New Zealand they would need to find sponsors to fund the countdown towards the Rio Olympics, Fairfax reported.
Both the men's and women's squads of 25 were asked to seek out $12,000 funding packages which would go towards extra support for the players at their 12-week camp in Auckland before the games.
They were given to the end of January to find sponsorship which was then extended to the end of February. Hockey New Zealand chief executive Ian Francis said the organisation had retracted that directive.