Former performance director Dave Brailsford has rejected accusations by former world and Olympic champion Nicole Cooke that British Cycling has a culture of sexism. Writing in the Times newspaper on Friday, the Team Sky boss said the culture he promoted was one of "winning, but not winning at all costs". It is why British Cycling has won as many female medals as male ones since 2008." Cooke, the 2008 Olympic road race champion, last month told a British Parliamentary committee investigating doping in sport that cycling was a sport "run by men, for men".
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