British Cycling’s reputation "faces the prospect of another battering" after it was accused of misleading UK Sport, the body that provides it with "millions of pounds of public money each year," by covering up "allegations of bullying in an internal report" after the London 2012 Olympics, according to Sean Ingle of the London GUARDIAN. UK Sport CEO Liz Nicholl said that British Cycling had displayed "a complete lack of transparency" by giving UK Sport a summary of an internal performance review conducted by former CEO Peter King, "which did not accurately reflect the facts of the report." When it was "put to Nicholl that this was tantamount to a cover-up, she nodded" before adding, "We wouldn’t expect that to happen. We would have expected to receive the full report at the time." When asked if UK Sport "could have tackled the culture at British Cycling" if the organization had seen the full report in '12, Nicholl replied, "Yes, of course. But what we received from them as a summary of what the report was saying did not raise any alarm bells at all." However, British Cycling insisted it "did properly brief UK Sport and the British Cycling board about the King report" in '12 (GUARDIAN, 2/21). The BBC's Dan Roan reported Nicholl warned there is "no excuse" for failures to look after athlete welfare. She said that she would be "clear about the actions that UK Sport and British Cycling need to take." Nicholl admitted that "there probably hasn't been enough attention in sport about how they do things." King "took anonymous statements from 40 personnel as part of a report that was never made public." Nicholl: "We didn't receive the King report" (BBC, 2/21).