http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Nicole Cooke: welcome to the world of elite cycling where sexism is by design" en Tue, 26 May 2026 07:04:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-276125 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:36:18 +0000 Frenchy 276125@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>This subject is going to get quite contentious I'd imagine...</em></p> <p>So instead of having a "stand down" period, athletes are allowed to continue competing in men's events whilst transitioning? Seems fair enough to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-276121 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:45:44 +0000 I were right about that saddle 276121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This subject is going to get quite contentious I'd imagine...</p> <p><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&amp;objectid=12002309" rel="nofollow">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&amp;objectid=12002309</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-273797 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:00:44 +0000 chdot 273797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2018/01/04/11-years-of-veloveritas-2008-shane-sutton-compassionately-ruthless/" rel="nofollow">http://www.veloveritas.co.uk/2018/01/04/11-years-of-veloveritas-2008-shane-sutton-compassionately-ruthless/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-238520 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:28:28 +0000 PS 238520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jess Varnish will have to start wearing a helmetcam... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-238500 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 09:48:48 +0000 chdot 238500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>However, according to a leaked summary of the judgment seen by The Daily Telegraph, the Australian was not actually found guilty of Varnish’s allegations. He was found guilty of a different charge, understood to have been made by someone other than Varnish during the course of the investigation, of using the term “bitches”. No context was given in the summary.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2016/12/07/british-cyling-fire-emerges-shane-sutton-cleared-eight-nine" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2016/12/07/british-cyling-fire-emerges-shane-sutton-cleared-eight-nine</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-238496 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 09:34:18 +0000 chdot 238496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Reacting to the letter, Varnish, 25, told BBC Sport on Wednesday: "I am shocked and upset by this latest news and have instructed my solicitor to appeal against the findings of the internal investigation on my behalf. </p> <p>"Having provided substantial evidence to back up my complaints, to now learn that the majority were not upheld is heartbreaking. I know what was said, and I know I've told the truth.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38245106" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38245106</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-234922 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 22:19:28 +0000 SRD 234922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://road.cc/content/news/209585-british-cycling-upholds-jessica-varnish’s-allegation-discrimination-against" rel="nofollow">http://road.cc/content/news/209585-british-cycling-upholds-jessica-varnish’s-allegation-discrimination-against</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/28/british-cycling-upholds-complaint-shane-sutton-jessica-varnish" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/28/british-cycling-upholds-complaint-shane-sutton-jessica-varnish</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-221169 Fri, 27 May 2016 12:00:15 +0000 chdot 221169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Victoria Pendleton: corrosive culture forced me out of cycling </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/26/victoria-pendleton-olympics-shane-sutton" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/26/victoria-pendleton-olympics-shane-sutton</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-218579 Tue, 03 May 2016 09:37:27 +0000 PS 218579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/emma-pooley-to-the-rescue/">This</a>, as ever, is pretty sensible stuff from Emma Pooley. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-218567 Tue, 03 May 2016 08:32:42 +0000 chdot 218567@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today)<br /> 03/05/2016, 8:30 am<br /> The British cycling team success was "not based on motivation through fear", says Sir Dave Brailsford after Shane Sutton suspension.</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-218566 Tue, 03 May 2016 08:21:40 +0000 chdot 218566@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/sport/cycling/richard-moore-sense-of-loss-over-shane-sutton-s-departure-1-4115634" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/sport/cycling/richard-moore-sense-of-loss-over-shane-sutton-s-departure-1-4115634</a></p> <p>"</p> <p>Sutton settled in Britain, though his early and perhaps lasting impression was that British cyclists were “too soft”. When he retired he moved into coaching and he was brought into the British set-up in 2002 by Dave Brailsford. “I remember everyone really drew in their breath,” Brailsford said. “Shane’s a bit of a wild man, but what I saw in Shane more than anything was an empathy for the riders.”</p> <p>"</p> <p>DB just on R4 Today not being very enlightening... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309&page=2#post-218449 Sun, 01 May 2016 14:11:37 +0000 SRD 218449@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will fotheringham reflects on a book he didn't (couldn't) write:</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/30/british-olympic-cycling-team-controversy-shane-sutton" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/30/british-olympic-cycling-team-controversy-shane-sutton</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218399 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 14:20:36 +0000 chdot 218399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>‘I am not too old. I am not a waste of UK Sport’s money. I can win more medals’ </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/not-old-not-waste-uk-sports-money-can-win-medals-222585" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/not-old-not-waste-uk-sports-money-can-win-medals-222585</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218377 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:51:09 +0000 chdot 218377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/29/shane-sutton-british-cycling-10-key-questions" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/29/shane-sutton-british-cycling-10-key-questions</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218376 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:48:33 +0000 chdot 218376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Cycling Weekly (@cyclingweekly)<br /> 29/04/2016, 7:16 pm<br /> Sir Chris Hoy on Shane Sutton: “I have never met anyone who gave so much” </p> <p><a href="http://trib.al/Npmk1Ge" rel="nofollow">http://trib.al/Npmk1Ge</a> </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/5PslQ3BBN5" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/5PslQ3BBN5</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218290 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:36:35 +0000 chdot 218290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling/simon-yates-british-cyclist-fails-drugs-test-after-doctors-error-a7006076.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cycling/simon-yates-british-cyclist-fails-drugs-test-after-doctors-error-a7006076.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218283 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:18:13 +0000 SRD 218283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>DM has now updated article to name cyclist as Simon Yates. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218281 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:50:38 +0000 SRD 218281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To save you clicking on the DM:</p> <p>British Cycling descended deeper into crisis on Thursday night after it emerged that one of their leading riders has failed a drugs test.</p> <p>Sportsmail can reveal that the rider, a road specialist but a former star of the British track team, tested positive in a race in France last month.</p> <p>The rider, who is known by this newspaper but cannot be named at this stage, was among those contesting a place in the British team for the Olympic road race in Rio de Janeiro this summer. </p> <p>Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3564406/Leading-GB-Cyclist-fails-drugs-test-British-Cycling-plunged-crisis.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3564406/Leading-GB-Cyclist-fails-drugs-test-British-Cycling-plunged-crisis.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218279 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:55:51 +0000 SRD 218279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought something better was coming fromthe Guardian...</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/28/british-cycling-ignored-claims-shane-sutton-years-say-staff?CMP=share_btn_tw" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/28/british-cycling-ignored-claims-shane-sutton-years-say-staff?CMP=share_btn_tw</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218136 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:30:47 +0000 SRD 218136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>backgroundy sort of piece from Will Fotheringham <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/27/british-cycling-team-chaos-shane-sutton-rio-olympics-2016" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/27/british-cycling-team-chaos-shane-sutton-rio-olympics-2016</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218134 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:24:28 +0000 Stickman 218134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/36153485">Sutton has quit. </a></p> <p>Edit: see it's already been posted, sorry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218107 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:34:50 +0000 Baldcyclist 218107@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good that he's gone, at the end of the day it's just work, and nobody should traeted that way at work!</p> <p>On a sporting level, probably gives BC all sorts of headaches this far through an Olympic cycle... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218102 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:53:15 +0000 paddyirish 218102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/27/shane-sutton-resigns-british-cycling-paralympians">http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/27/shane-sutton-resigns-british-cycling-paralympians</a></p> <p>well he's gone- not very surprising </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218046 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:06:40 +0000 acsimpson 218046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was only likely to end like this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/36147120">Shane Sutton: British Cycling chief suspended over discrimination claims</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218028 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:36:28 +0000 paddyirish 218028@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@earthowned Guess we need to be careful being judge jury and executioner, but it doesn't look good for Sutton...</p> <p>But if folk cancel BC membership and cancel CTC membership which insurance is left?</p> <p>With all these organisations, it is best to remember that there is more that unites us than divides us.<br /> The only winners in this will be those who wish cycling ill... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218025 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:27:50 +0000 Cyclingmollie 218025@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Michael Hutchinson, consistently the UK's best time-trialist is another cyclist who didn't fit the British Cycling mould. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218024 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:26:03 +0000 earthowned 218024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If this turns out to be true then I'll be immediately cancelling my BC membership and letting them know that I don't want to support an organisation that has allowed widespread discrimination and abuse to occur. Shocking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218011 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:51:18 +0000 paddyirish 218011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS</p> <p><em>"but dear God in heaven you cannot call disabled people 'gimps' and expect to stay in the country let alone your job. "</em></p> <p>This... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218009 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:43:42 +0000 I were right about that saddle 218009@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We should be under no illusions about elite sport and the kinds of people who can drive themselves to be the best in the world at anything, but dear God in heaven you cannot call disabled people 'gimps' and expect to stay in the country let alone your job. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16309#post-218003 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:12:00 +0000 gembo 218003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know a fencing champion who was number two in the UK but was not selected for thenolympic team as he was not in a place to join the people he was better than and live as a team., in the small print the selectors are allowed to over rule performance standards,</p> <p>Don't think banter training will help Sutton. </p>