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The governing body on Friday upheld track sprinter Varnish's allegations that Sutton, the technical director, had used sexist language, telling her to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:"move on and go and have a baby" after𓆏 she was dropped from the Olympic Programme.

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S𝔍utton was suspended by British Cycling when the allegations surfaced in April, and subsequently resigned from his position. He has maintained his innocence throughout the six-month internal investigation, and has now asked to see the supporting evidence from it.

"I'm massively disappoꦰinted. I put my trust in [the investigation]. I have gone 🎃back to them now and asked for the supporting evidence to try to understand how they have arrived at this conclusion," he said.

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"We have already seen during this process that people have come out with falsehoods, certain allegations made, for instance regarding data ꧂that was allegedly not released꧒, meetings that didn't happen. One party in all of this has been proved to have told untruths and that party wasn't me."

Sutton, 🐼who had hoped to be cleared and be able to return to his post, downplayed the possibility of a legal challenge to the ꦆverdict, and acknowledged that there is now "no way back" for him at British Cycling.

The 59-year-old has been at the organi🧔sation since 2002, joining as a coach and for✅ming part of the set-up that brought home 14 gold across the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. He stepped up to the role of technical director in 2014 following Dave Brailsford's move to concentrate squarely on Team Sky.

"It's just a shame it has ended like this but it has been a fantastic journey, there have been fantastic pe💎ople who I have worked with, some incredible athletes," said Sutton. "All of them. The Hoys, the Wiggins, the Cavendish's, the Pendletons, the Cookes. Absolutely fantastic to have been part of.

"You don't spend the amount of time we did together, a🃏nd go on the journey which we have been on, without having gr⭕eat memories."