Cycling boss to tackle gender inequality

“There’s a seachange going on at the moment in the whole way the public and the media respond to women’s sport."

UCI president Brian Cookson is aiming to address gender equalities in cycling, but knows it will take time and a joined-up approach after the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report highlighted alarming issues of financial and alleged sexual exploitation of women.

The main purpose of CIRC, whose report was published by the UCI last week, was to investigate past doping practices and whether cycling’s world governing body was complicit in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.