UPDATE: Shane Sutton steps down from British Cycling role
With exactly 100 days to go until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, British Cycling need a speedy resolution to the Shane Sutton saga and the storm developing over Manchester.
British Cycling’s technical director is currently suspended pending an internal investigation into allegations of discrimination by the Australian, who took over from Dave Brailsford as the head of the track programme in 2014.
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And the weight of those allegations from both track sprinter Jessica Varnish and para-cyclist Darren Kenny, mean British Cycling are quite right to have taken action in first announcing an inquiry on the back of Varnish’s statement, before suspending Sutton as Kenny’s comments came to light.