16 May 2022

'I am sorry' - Cycling NZ vows improvement after damning report

From Checkpoint, 5:12 pm on 16 May 2022

Cycling New Zealand and High Performance Sport New Zealand are apologising for "unresolved trauma" and vowing to do better after the release of another damning report into cycling's high performance culture.

104 pages of findings and recommendations have been released in a scathing report - commissioned by the two organisations after the suspected suicide of Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore nine months ago.

The report comes in the wake of a separate review into cycling in 2018 - which discovered similar issues relating to athlete welfare and wellbeing.

Clay Wilson reports.