After speaking out about sexism within British Cycling in an interview with the Daily Mail last week, Jess Varnish has released a full statement on her website Tuesday standing by her allegations that after being dropped by the federation, technical director Shane Sutton told her she was “too old” and that she should "move on and go and have a baby.”
“The comment that Shane Sutton told me ’to go and have a baby’ is true,” Varnish wrote, releasing her statement in response to Sutton denying the allegations. “I stand by all my statements in the Daily Mail interview and have examples of other comments made to me during my time at British Cycling by Shane Sutton dating back many years.”
British Cycling issued a statement in response to Varnish's allegations in which they said the decision to drop the rider from the team ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio was made purely on sporting grounds because of underperforming at the 2016 Track World Championships in London.
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In her statement, Varnish noted that during the two-year Olympic qualifying process, she gained more qualifying points than any other British female sprint rider and that she was consistently performing in the top five in the world for lap 1 times in the team sprint. She also said that she qualified Olympic places in the individual sprint and keirin. She added that since 2012, she has won medals at the World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Varnish also said that prior to being cut from British Cycling, she was never given a warning during the team’s monthly performance reviews, and that she was denied access to her own performance criteria when she requested to see it.
“With regards to my contract not being renewed on performance grounds, I find this very hard to accept,” Varnish wrote. “Prior to the 2016 World Championships I was not once told that I was underperforming. We have monthly reviews and at no stage was I put under review, or set performance targets to keep my place on the programme.
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