However, Warr said she expected British athletes to kick on again after a “fantastic” 2019. “And all of them have been stress-tested over the last few months.”Meanwhile the new chief executive of UK Sport, Sally Munday, has praised journalists for unearthing the athlete welfare crisis in British Olympic sport during the past few years. However, Munday insisted UK Sport had listened and responded to some of the problems in the system. And with that comes being open to scrutiny.”Munday, who was previously a highly regarded chief executive of GB hockey, also stressed she wanted UK Sport to be even better in the future. But over the last few years UK Sport has put a lot of things in place to ensure some of the failings in the past aren’t able to happen in the future.”

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2019 17:01 UTC