Wiggins and another rider have said Stan Knight abused them during training camp visits to a youth hostel in Dorset cycling
"How it started was on the basis, 'This was for sport. This is helping you.' So, first things first: 'I'm going to show you how to clean your crotch when you're in the shower because one of the biggest problems with cyclists is that you get saddle sores and infections.' So he showed me, you know. 'You have to lift your sac up with a scrubbing brush,' and he actually demonstrated that on me, in the shower," Wiggins recalled.
When Wiggins was 23 — the year Knight died — his mother was contacted by British Cycling in a letter explaining that the governing body had received a complaint from the family of another boy that the coach was training. "Straightaway, on the spot, I said, 'Nah, nah, of course he didn't. No, no.' And so she said, 'I'm going to write back, tell them that no, nothing like that ever happened.' So I walked away from that moment, and that cemented me into [the position of] not saying anything," he continued.Another of Knight's victims told The Times how Knight was"utterly useless" as a cycling coach and"it was like he used the club just to be around boys".
"He would give massages which would end up with fondling and fingers going into places that you didn't want to. You kind of wriggle and writhe and push away and stuff like that. And then you kind of get through it and then it stops."I have heard there are several others and I hope they come forward too. Inevitably, there will be many others. This was at the end of a long, so-called career in cycling. Stan was utterly useless as a coach. He was like a child, an utter idiot.
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