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Mike Walters & Daniel Moxon & John-Paul Clark

Scots Olympian Katie Archibald slams governing bodies' treatment of transgender athlete

Scots Olympic champion Katie Archibald has slammed the cycling governing bodies for their handling of transgender athlete Emily Bridges.

Archibald, who won gold in Tokyo last summer, said she felt "let down" by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the International Olympic Committee.

The debate is centred around concerns that transgender women athletes retain a biological advantage from going through male puberty that is not addressed by lowering testosterone.

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