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Australian track cycling leading the sprint to change coaching of elite female athletes
Stephanie Morton was in the Australian squad to go to her second Olympic Games next year at Tokyo.
Key points:
- Stephanie Morton’s retirement left a hole in AusCycling’s track program
- This helped prompt AusCycling’s Lynne Munro to look at changing the way females are coached in elite sport
- AFLW’s Peta Searle says coaches need to understand “the barriers” female athletes face
Last year she won gold with her teammate Kaarle McCulloch in the women’s team sprint at the Track Cycling World Championships in Poland.
But just eight months before the Games — and after thinking long and hard — Morton decided it was time to stop.
“When we got the announcement in March that they were postponing the Olympics, it went from four months to go to the Games…
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