BMX ace Kye Whyte set to inspire a new generation after Olympic success – The Voice Online

IN THE wake of success at the Tokyo Olympics British Cycling has its eye on more glory. BMX star Kye Whyte won a silver medal at the Olympics on a day when Team GB won their first Olympic medals in the sport. Bethany Shriever struck gold and Whyte, dubbed the ‘Prince of Peckham’, silver as Britain’s BMX stars dominated in Tokyo.

Now British Cycling has published its strategy to 2024 following record-breaking success at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, supporting the organisation to grow the sport and enable more people within its communities to discover cycling.

With a focused purpose to Lead our sport, inspire our communities, the strategy will guide the organisation’s work through to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, while supporting the development of the sport’s grassroots. Across seven priority areas key targets include:

• Growing the organisation’s membership to 250,000.
• Increasing by 20% the number of cycling clubs and groups and the young people riding in them.
• Creation of a new development plan to support non-Olympic and Paralympic discipline.
• Broadening the range of commercial partners working with British Cycling.
• Increasing representation of disabled people, people from diverse ethnic communities, LGBTQI people and people from lower income households within cycling.

Great Britain topped the cycling medal table at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer, surpassing the total number of medals won at each of London 2012 and Rio 2016, while ground-breaking successes in mountain biking, BMX and BMX freestyle highlighted the team’s breadth of talent across the disciplines.

British Cycling’s independent chair, Frank Slevin, said: “It brings me great pride to present a new purpose and strategy for British Cycling today, guiding our path to Paris and a vibrant, prosperous future for our organisation.

“Since beginning my tenure as Independent Chair in January 2018 we have introduced considerable changes to the ways in which we govern our sport and activities, welcomed new members to our Executive Leadership Team and board of directors, and made great strides towards strengthening our diversity and connection with the grassroots of the sport.

“With our new strategy in place we now have an excellent platform to build from, and I and the Board look forward to supporting the organisation and its leadership team in bringing it to fruition.”

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