{"id":36134,"date":"2026-10-12T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/matt-richardson-british-cycling-withdraw-olympic-medallist-from-squad-for-world-track-cycling-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T23:27:13","slug":"matt-richardson-british-cycling-withdraw-olympic-medallist-from-squad-for-world-track-cycling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/matt-richardson-british-cycling-withdraw-olympic-medallist-from-squad-for-world-track-cycling-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Richardson: British Cycling withdraw Olympic medallist from squad for World Track Cycling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>Matt Richardson has been withdrawn from the Great Britain squad for this week&#8217;s World Track Cycling Championships in Shanghai amid reports he is under investigation for misconduct.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Cycling confirmed the 27-year-old Olympic medallist&#8217;s removal in a statement but did not give a reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When approached by BBC Sport, British Cycling declined to comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/cycling\/article\/matthew-richardson-out-of-world-championships-over-serious-misconduct-6wrxhkhjg\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">allegations first reported by The Times<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> it was because of a misconduct investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last Wednesday, Richardson was named in the British squad for the championships, which run from 14-18 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had been expected to contend for three medals in the team sprint, individual sprint and keirin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richardson switched allegiance from Australia to Britain after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he won two silver medals and a bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also forced to miss his anticipated England debut at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July after crashing during a keirin event in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has approached Richardson&#8217;s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cmpwgdw0p1d5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Richardson has been withdrawn from the Great Britain squad for this week&#8217;s World Track Cycling Championships in Shanghai amid reports he is under investigation for misconduct. British Cycling confirmed the 27-year-old Olympic medallist&#8217;s removal in a statement but did not give a reason. When approached by BBC Sport, British Cycling declined to comment on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36136,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions\/36136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}