It's not about the bikes

Another troubling report into NZ's high-performance culture drops with a dull thud.

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Over the weekend I spent hours digesting the report stemming from the independent inquiry into cycling, prompted by the death of Olivia Podmore, parsing every line in the search of enlightenment. When I got to page 100-and-something of the 104-page report I realised I needn’t have bothered.

I’d read it all before. The previous reviews were fr…