Cycling<\/a> can confirm that Matt Richardson has been withdrawn from the Great Britain cycling team squad for the upcoming 2026 track cycling world championships in Shanghai, China,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\nThe Times reported that when it had originally gone to British Cycling with its story it was told: \u201cBritish Cycling takes any allegations of harassment, bullying or discrimination extremely seriously. Where concerns are raised, they are investigated thoroughly through our established procedures. Out of fairness to anyone involved in an investigation, we would not comment on any ongoing process.\u201d<\/p>\n
British Cycling refused to go into further detail about the investigation when contacted by the Guardian. Richardson could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
Richardson, who was born in Maidstone before moving to Perth when he was nine, missed out on an England debut at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer after he crashed in a keirin race shortly before he was due to fly to Scotland. However the cyclist, whose partner is his fellow British cyclist Emma Finucane, was expected to be a central figure for the team in China and at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n
When asked previously about his change in allegiances, Richardson said: \u201cI grew up watching Chris Hoy race on the TV. Whenever I\u2019ve raced in the UK, it felt as though I was racing in front of a home crowd. It made me think: \u2018What would this feel like if I was racing for Great Britain?\u2019 That\u2019s something I want to find out. I want to chase that feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson has withdrawn from the Great Britain team for next week\u2019s track world championships in Shanghai amid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}