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    Posted: 23 Dec 16 at 9:52am

Stephen Park OBE has left his post as Royal Yachting Association Olympic manager to become British Cycling's new performance director.

The post has been empty since Sir David Brailsford's departure in April 2014 to concentrate on his Team Sky duties.

“I feel enormously privileged and excited to be given the opportunity to take my experiences into working with another world-leading sport, and look forward to building on the high performance culture at British Cycling," said Park
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More money in cycling, then?
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Originally posted by Rupert

More money in cycling, then?

or it could effectively be a promotion ... 
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More money in cycling, then?

3 bike shops in my town. No boat or watersports shops though.
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Originally posted by Rupert

More money in cycling, then?

3 bike shops in my town. No boat or watersports shops though.


You don't live at Hamble, then?!

In reality, I can see many reasons why a move like this makes sense. The risks for him are bigger, but with that will come a greater sense of achievement, and it will stops things becoming stale, reigniting the fires.

There must be a very small pool of people with his level of experience.
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If press reports are correct you can see why they might want to get someone in from a sport with a different culture. Good luck to him, I wouldn't want to go near it.
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If press reports are correct you can see why they might want to get someone in from a sport with a different culture. Good luck to him, I wouldn't want to go near it.

Different culture....? Is sailing not institutionally sexist and nepotistic? 

Changing, yes, but so are all sports and life generally.
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Is sailing not institutionally sexist and nepotistic? 

My impression is it isn't too bad. I can't believe, for instance, that someone with my sort of unconventional background would have been in the Portsmouth Yardstick group back in the 70s.
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Originally posted by JimC

If press reports are correct you can see why they might want to get someone in from a sport with a different culture. Good luck to him, I wouldn't want to go near it.

There may not be anything particularly wrong with the general culture of the sport of cycling, as far as sexism etc goes; for example, I don't know of  anywhere in cycling comparable with SA in terms of aggressively sexist culture on open display at a major site.

There may be a sub-culture of aggressively loutish Australian middle-aged male track cycling coaches. That's been a problem for decades now, but whether the whole sport suffers from that is another issue. 
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