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Exclusive: Four more Olympic and Paralympic sports dragged into athlete welfare scandal
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The potential scale of the athlete welfare scandal engulfing British Olympic and Paralympic sports can be laid bare after it emerged concerns had been raised over more than a third of UK Sport-funded governing bodies.
Telegraph Sport can reveal that at least 11 of the 28 national governing bodies (NGBs) in receipt of £361.5 million of public money in the build-up to the Rio and Pyeongchang Games have received complaints from athletes or been forced to review their policies - or both - since being awarded their share of that cash.
Seven of those NGBs had already been publicly exposed, the most recent of them on Tuesday when it emerged a senior bobsleigh coach had been accused of racism.
The Telegraph can reveal four more that have had to confront welfare-related concerns during or after the Rio and Pyeongchang cycles: the NGBs of sailing, judo, archery and short track speed skating.
Along with athletics, swimming, cycling, rowing, canoeing and taekwondo, those four sports and bobsleigh account for almost two-thirds of UK Sport’s entire budget for the two Games.
The summer sports also brought home 41 of Great Britain’s record 67 medals at last year’s Olympics and 118 of their 147 medals at the Paralympics, compounding fears podium success in Rio had come at the expense of athlete welfare.
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The scandal which triggered the current crisis, that in British Cycling, will reach its climax on Wednesday with the publication of the independent review into its world-class programme.
A UK Sport spokesperson said: “As part of the independent review into the climate and culture in the British Cycling world-class programme, we have learnt valuable lessons to be shared across the British sporting system to improve culture and conduct and to ensure that issues, if they arise, are addressed robustly and appropriately.”
The Government-appointed Olympic and Paralympic sport funding body also announced it had established a head of sport integrity to advise on policies and procedures for handling cultural or behavioural issues.
There was no response on Tuesday from the NGBs of sailing, judo, archery and short track speed skating.
Bobsleigh became the first winter sport to be dragged into the scandal when leaked confidential documents revealed that a number of athletes wrote anonymously to the chief executive of the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA) in April to “share concerns over the behaviour of key performance and management staff”.
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According to individual letters sent to Richard Parker, one athlete claimed to have experienced “racism several times” from a senior coach, accusing him of branding black people “lazy” and having "a blatant dislike towards people of colour”.
Another athlete alleged “a racial bias in favour of caucasian males” on the performance programme and “a racial stigma against black drivers”.
Further complaints said “sexist comments are regular, there have been claims of racist remarks which all get ignored”, “the culture is one of fear... athletes are literally terrified of putting a foot wrong”, and that there was “dictatorship within the management”.
It also emerged an earlier allegation of discriminatory language by a different senior coach towards an athlete had been made to the BBSA three years ago.
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Following an internal review, Parker emailed athletes last month telling them “no formal complaints were made against individual staff members and therefore no disciplinary action will take place”.
The BBSA, the best funded of Britain’s winter sports NGBs after being handed £10 million by UK Sport in the build-up to next year’s Olympics, said it “condemns racism, sexism and any other form of discrimination in the strongest possible sense. Such attitudes have no place in our sport”.
In a statement on its review, it added: “Athletes were asked to formalise any complaints as part of the process to start an official investigation and allow any persons involved a right to respond but no such complaints were made. The BBSA acted swiftly to address the situation and steps have been taken to ensure all athletes and staff are clear on the process in which to address any concerns.”