Nienke Podmore has given an insight into long-awaited Cycling NZ inquiry out Monday.
"The fact they keep on going back to ex-athletes to be running kids and a lot of athletes are not nice people. We know it's not a five-minute job, people are realistic but, just for the future of New Zealand sport as a whole you know." Last year, the Herald revealed that Podmore was pressured to lie by Cycling NZ management following the 2016 Bordeaux incident. However, Nienke did not attend. Nienke feels that Bordeaux incident was central to what she believes was the mistreatment of her daughter by Cycling NZ and precipitated the ongoing ostracisation and selection issues she faced during her next four years in the high performance system. The valuing of medals and performance above all else in the Cycling NZ high performance model was also a central criticism in the findings, they said.
The mother of late NZ cyclist Olivia Podmore has said she's disappointed not to have received a formal apology from Cycling New Zealand, after an ...
An independent inquiry into Cycling New Zealand and the high performance system is set to be released on Monday.
All the things he's doing exactly what Livvy would have loved, one step forward, one step back," Nienke said. "I would like to hope that [things] will get better. But if it was her, absolutely a lot more involvement and more contact.
As officials prepare to release the findings of a second major inquiry into Cycling NZ in the space of three years, the family of Olivia Podmore says ...
The inquiry follows a 2018 investigation by Heron into allegations of inappropriate behaviour and bullying in Cycling NZ’s elite programmes. “She said the new coach is really great and Livi would have responded so well him. The review panel’s findings, which will be released to the public on Monday, do not traverse Podmore’s direct experiences in the Cycling NZ’s elite programmes, but instead focus on the fault lines her death has revealed in New Zealand’s high performance system. The first report made quite clear where the issues are. “[The issues in Cycling NZ] should never have needed to be readdressed. There certainly was some empathy around her death, but that was about it,” she says.