Today 4 members of British Cycling took a banner reading “Get Shell out of British Cycling” in the Wales Velodrome during the @British Cycling National Track Cycling Championships.
The oil giant Shell has agreed a sponsorship deal with British Cycling, the UK’s main governing body of cycle sport. Sahrah, British Cycling Breeze Champion from Aberystwyth is one of the protesters. “We tried to talk to British Cycling at their AGM, but they blocked us by moving the meeting online and refusing to let us speak, but we’re not going away. Shell is one of the biggest contributors to climate breakdown, but British Cycling is helping them to pretend they’re a good, green company.” 55 year old Sahrah added “We’ll follow them round the country if we have to, to tell them that Shell shouldn’t have anything to do with cycling and to show other sporting organisations that there are consequences to taking money from one of the world’s biggest polluters.”
Tomorrow, Sunday 29th, velodrome spectators will be approached outside the Velodrome by climate protesters to raise awareness of Shell’s sponsorship deal, and asked on a survey board if they approve of the deal.
Brian Facer was the CEO of British Cycling who brokered the deal with Shell. He announced “We’re looking forward to working alongside Shell UK over the rest of this decade to widen access to the sport, support our elite riders and help our organisation and sport take important steps towards net zero – things we know our members are incredibly passionate about.”
Amidst a massive backlash against this deal just three weeks after this announcement Facer suddenly stepped down from his job.
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