The Australian Sports Commission may guarantee only 60 per cent of funding to Athletics Australia until the sport shows its house is in order.

The much-anticipated review of athletics has called for sweeping reforms, including a unification under one structure.

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Former Australian cricket coach John Buchanan chaired the One Sport review, which was commissioned following Athletics Australia’s trouble-plagued Glasgow Commonwealth Games campaign.

Coach Eric Hollingsworth was sent home after he publicly criticised star hurdler Sally Pearson.

“The situation that the sport of athletics finds itself in is not new. It has been a fragmented sport historically,” Buchanan said.

“Poor governance procedures are central to this lack of an integrated and coordinated delivery of the sport.”

“The opportunities for the sport of athletics are enormous if it can get its act together.

“That is, one sport, junior and senior, to provide the range of fundamental physical skills that benefit all people across most sports and activities, whether they are recreational athletes or have a desire to pursue a high performance pathway.”

The review has made 16 recommendations, mostly covering governance and high performance.

It has called for an oversight committee, made up of representatives from the sports commission, the Australian Institute of Sport and Athletics Australia.

The committee would meet monthly and monitor reform in Athletics Australia until it is satisfied for 18 months.

The review said the sports commission should only guarantee 60 per cent of funding for 2015-16.

AA would receive the balance of the crucial money when the oversight committee is satisfied with the reform progress.