British Cycling was warned on Thursday that it could lose £26 million in funding ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games unless it got its house in order.

At a joint presentation in Manchester to announce a 39-point ‘action plan’ for cycling’s national governing body, UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl insisted it would be a “condition of grant” that various reforms were implemented in the wake of Wednesday’s stunning revelations regarding British Cycling’s lack of medical record-keeping.

The backlash from Wednesday’s parliamentary select committee hearing has already spread to other Olympic and Paralympic sports, however.

Many of them on Thursday expressed dismay at the way in which British Cycling had been allowed to operate and the way UK Sport had held it up to other sports as a shining example.

The British Athletics chairman, Ed Warner, told the Telegraph that British Cycling now looked like a “false idol”, whose downfall made a mockery of UK Sport’s elite performance system.