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Sir Dave Brailsford, former performance director of British Cycling, and current general manager of Team Sky said claims of sexist discrimination in British cycling "need to be addressed".

"When we started out there were 10 gold medals available in track cycling. Three of them were for women, seven for men. We managed to change to five and five, so that we had a parity. We had a lot of success with the female athletes," Sir Dave Brailsford added.

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