Cycling into trouble

The last vestiges of British Cycling’s reputation appeared to be ripped to shreds last night by an independent review that accused it of allowing a "culture of fear", with riders and staff bullied and a "dysfunctional leadership" allowed to flourish. A draft copy of the unpublished UK Sport review into the culture of British Cycling, leaked to the Daily Mail, is also damning about Sir Dave Brailsford and Shane Sutton, two of the key cogs behind the organisation’s success for over a decade.

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... an independent UK Sport panel, led by the British Rowing chair Annamarie Phelps, has reportedly found that British Cycling’s grievance officer, Alex Russell, had originally found "considerably more" of Varnish’s claims had been proven, but these “harder-hitting investigative findings” were not included in the final version.
"As a result," the review states, "it appears that not only did the British Cycling board not accept the findings of its grievance officer, it reversed them. The actions of the British Cycling board in that regard are shocking and inexcusable. They also call into serious question whether the composition of the British Cycling board is fit to govern a national sporting body."

www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/10/british-cycling-dave-brailsford-reputation-in-tatters-review